Just thought I would revisit Brown bag #2 and professor Sikand’s example of licensing fees with her documentary and the Kesha Song. Just to bring up another example of how limiting the constraints of attempting to follow proper copyright law can be for independent filmmakers I would like to bring up the film Clerks. As the linked tailer mentions at the end the film includes a soundtrack from big name bands like Alice in chains. However what is more notable about Clerks in particular is that the costs of the film were so low and the licensing fees so high that the majority of the film’s budget went to paying the record labels for permission to use the soundtrack. With artists like Tom Waits pushing for harsher copyright laws and banning impersonation how then are low budget filmmakers supposed to create films? Unfortunately the laws are getting harsher and making it more difficult for artists to create.