What's this about having to get permission to perform Final Fantasy music at a concert? Anyone have any insight on this?

I'm not sure but I've heard there's already a professional orchestra going around playing final fantasy music :think: that didnt need permission to play...

I think it's ok as long as it's not commercial or infringing copyright. :)

Originally posted by an-kun@Feb 16 2005, 05:36 PM
I'm not sure but I've heard there's already a professional orchestra going around playing final fantasy music :think: that didnt need permission to play...
You are probably talking about The Black Mages (http://www.square-enix.com/uematsu/black_mages/)

Nobuo Uematsu Music. (He made most of all Final Fantasy Music) And his group, "The Black Mages" is having conserts. They play Final Fantasy music. But with different styles, add ad-ons. -_-



MY first post... :whistle:

isn't the black mages the group with guitars and drums and Uematsu on keyboards? That's probably not what he's talkin about if he says professional orchestra...

But you have to pay a royalty fee in order to play Square's music in a performance. The sights loadin for me right now, ill edit it in when its ready.

And I thought the Orchestra thing was Actually Organized by Square Enix

Square Enix is just the "company" that hired Nobuo Uematsu to make the music for them. He is a star! :heh:

Square-Enix now charges a royalty fee to all those who wish to perform and/or arrange Final fantasy music for their field shows, concert band/orchestra, or any other performance venue.

Please visit: www.mpa.org/copyright/pta.html

This is the 'permission to arrange' form that Square-Enix will make you fill out along with a royalty fee check to arrange their music. This will allow you to legally do all the FF performances that year. You can send it directly to Square-Enix, but it may be wise to contact them first to see if the fee has increased.

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rue , true...

Ah thanks i feel a bit saddened by it but oh well thanks for the clarification. Funny that even includes marchingband music :doh:

I seem to remember somwhere in the MPA an exeption clause stating if it's for charity, non-profit, or free, the preformers do not have to pay royalties. That is why we do not pay royalites for ASACP, OPEC, and other music compostions/ arrangements for musical preformances today.

~Though, I might be wrong.

my thoughts were the same

Square-Enix does not allow any performances or use of any copyrighted material in their games whatsoever.

However, you can fill out the form listed earlier along with 3 copies of the score and each individual part of music you will have played. Every page must bear "Copyright (c) 200_ Square-Enix Co. LTD., All Rights Reserved." and you send it in. Also enclose a personal letter explaining why you want to perform it and ask to know how much the royalty is (leave the monetary section in the form blank) and if your request is accepted they will respond. Send in a check, and once they confirm everything you're off fine. Chances are they won't let you play it though, in which case doing so in public would be illegal and you may be sued.

Even than, I don't think they'll sue a kid who decides to show off at a church event by playing a final fantasy theme. Look at Youtube, there's hundreads of people playing FF themes and none of them got sued so far. They probably put that there so no one would decide to make a fortune out of it,a sort of, "If I wanted to sue you, I can" type of warning.

It's a federal offense. SOMEONE must do something about it.

They COULD technically do that, but it's probably more like free publicity for them, rather than a lawsuit opportunity....

so I take it we couldn't even perform a song for an anime convention for fun, or something similar?