other than going to a record company?

go to the record company.

or the bands management.

but usually the record company.

other than going to a record company?

isn’t there a standard licensing agency? Such as the one that kicks up a fuss if you have a radio at work?

PRS – that covers broadcast etc.

If you want to use it in an advert/film/etc you needs specific permission from the owner of the track to cover that use.

http://www.prsformusic.com/Pages/default.aspx

try here..

ooh, it changed – what Martyn said.

Not cheap though. We wanted to use ‘ready to go’ by republica for a conference video we were producing but it was going to cost around £15k. And then you have the issue of trying to contact the individual band members who own the track. That was 7 years ago though so maybe the process is simpler now.