Legal Question Re Vienna Use....

[tomhartman]

I saw a post by someone in another forum, in reply to a producer who wanted to hire someone with a library like Vienna Instruments to do some overdubs on his album.

Or to be more specific, let's say an artist who has written a song wants some Vienna string overdubs and commissions me, as a licensed VI owner, to write and record the string overdubs in my studio.

Someone replied that this would not be legally permissable, and that the owner of VI could only use it on his or her own material, and in a situation like the above, both myself AND THE END CLIENT would have to own a VSL license.

Can someone clarify? It would seem if this were the case, then if I did a movie score, the movie company would have to own VSL as well, as well as any client I did work for. This makes no sense at all.

Thanks
Tom H

[cm]

tom, i'm not remembering the issue you are referring to, but as you describe the situation it is much simpler in this case:
you are delivering some piece (or a part of a piece) to a client based on some contractual agreement (so it's your creative work) - clearly covered by your license.
what you can not do is lend your libray to the client allowing him to do this work.

a lot of film scores have already been made with/supported by VSL libraries - for such a case it is even not neccessary to give a credit (although we aprecciate it of course) - the film score is a derived work and you can determine its utilization at your own conveniance.
a little restriction might be, that on CDs/audio-DVDs/music-cassettes(haha) credits had to be given according to the license agreement: "Orchestral samples included in this recording from the Vienna Symphonic Library"
christian