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The article offers an update on music licensing rights strategies for documentary filmmakers. According to the article, going the festival route is a typical strategy around licensing music for documentaries, which allows a filmmaker to exhibit and shop the film through a one-year film festival cycle. It also indicates that a filmmaker can also add option rights to the initial request for festival rights such as digital video disc (DVD) rights, limited or full theatrical rights, and internet. |
