Can I use Apple Loops for commercial productions?

Just came back from Berlin after working there for 2 1/2 months! Logic at full tilt, everyday for 18-20 hours. Great city! Too bad, we haven't met earlier in this forum.

since this topic was brought up. By music law, what is the legal length to use a sample in a song for resale?

LP GUY, I could be wrong, but I don't think there's such thing as a "legal length". And what legal protections there are might vary from one country to another.

If you're using a sample of someone else's recording, you have to get clearance on the sample. There are attorneys that specialize in "sample clearance". This means paying a fee to the artist for the use of their recording in your record. There are no set fees for this. It all depends on the artist/song/record company (who likely owns the recording) and so on.

If you're sampling a single snare hit, it might be easy to get away with it (though I'm not condoning this). But if the piece of music is recognizable enough and the artist, publisher, record company, manager, or attorney ever hear your song and track you down, you could find yourself in litigation.

There are situations where people have lifted a piece of music for use in their record and gotten sued big time, and ended up having to fork over all of the money they made on the record to the original artists.

paris overcrowded?? ça va pas la tête??

🙂

haven't been to berlin for a few years, but what a great city, and what a great vibe..

"but I don't call myself a musician. when creating (writing, speaking, arranging, mixing and mastering)"

Perhaps you might want to consider HIRING a musician/composer who actually writes music and doesn't need Apple loops. Why should you be entitled to any music-oriented royalties when all you seem to do is play with a music Lego set? Find someone who knows what to do and give your ad/film/video . . . whatever, a truly distinct flavor. Gee, maybe that musician would even consider NOT using samples and hire real musicians to play the music. That would be novel.
I rant . . .

Perhaps you might want to consider HIRING a
musician/composer who actually writes music and
doesn't need Apple loops. Why should you be entitled
to any music-oriented royalties when all you seem to
do is play with a music Lego set? Find someone who
knows what to do and give your ad/film/video . . .
whatever, a truly distinct flavor. Gee, maybe that
musician would even consider NOT using samples and
hire real musicians to play the music. That would be
novel.

Who ever said anything about this guy wanting to collect music royalties? It sounds like he just needs some background "wallpaper" music for a video scene. If that's the case, and the music doesn't need to be anything special, why not use royalty free music if it serves the purpose as well as something custom composed that costs additional money?

As cheesy as library music can be, it does serve a purpose and a price range.

Getting back to the point ; )
Pretty sure you can use the Apple loops - heard a MacDonalds ad on the TV last year, and they used one of the horn lines that come with Logic.