A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: JF on August 31, 2017, 11:17:10 AM
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I saw Despicable Me 3 at the movies yesterday with my daughters and at the end there's the MFN riff.
I wonder : as the music is credited by MK and Sting, does Sting get money back of the use of the song in the film ?
if so, it's a litlle bit unfair imho. I would understand he would get money back for the "don't stand so close to me / I want my MTV" line, but for the guitar riff...
in general, if the MFN guitar riff is used in miovies or in adds, do you think that each time Sting get royalties for that ?
of course songs rights can not be divided in chorus/verses/bridge sections, it would be too much tricky, but in this case, knowing that Sting "owns" rights on a music that he did not really composed...
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But he's the composer anyway. It's like Nick Mason is the official composer of Speak to Me, but you know this is not entirely true.
The best part about it all is when I read this interview with Sting one day, about his time on Montserrat and Brothers In Arms being recorded... He said some remarkable lines, something like, "I thought there was going to be a battle" about the rights for Money For Nothing, but it turned out that there was no battle at all and he just received the rights with zero resistance from MK and his attorneys. I want to find this interview again.