Verification of Madness 'House of Fun' use

My partner and I sent an email to the management forum of 'Madness' to confirm if we were allowed to use this song for our project, as shown below:

To whom this may concern,

I recently emailed you regarding the licensing of the song "Our House" for a media coursework video, this follow up email is to inform you that we, Tim my coursework partner and I, have now chosen to do the song "House of fun" instead. We were wondering whether we could have permission to us this song and place our finished product video on YouTube. The music would be used purely for educational use and no commercial profit would be made. If you are not the copyright holder could you please forward me the address or link of the copyright holder.

Regards 

Ollie Smith

Shiplake College

Year 13   

We later recieved a reply from the Madness News team who stated:

Hi,

you don't strictly need permission to use it on Youtube anymore, you just load it up and Youtube automatically finger-print matches the audio with the right's holders who would have pre-selected whether to allow general useage of the track (they then earn a share of the advertising Youtube serves with the video)

So if you look on youtube and find loads of clips using 'House Of Fun' (other than official vids) that haven't been blocked, then you'll know yours wont be blocked either.

This only applies to Youtube 

Hope this helps,

Jamie

Madness News Team

 

So now we can use this song and post it on Youtube without fear of it being blocked due to infringement.