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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Stephen King used to start chapters of some of his books with song lyrics - just a line or two. Now maybe they just gave him permission but I bet he didn’t pay. And this was when he was relatively new.
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Stephen King's first book was a massive bestseller: the paperback sold a million copies in the first 12 months after release. After that, he could pretty much do whatever he wanted and his publisher would sort out the legalities.
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We used to do a Christmas musical video. The fee was about $5K to use a copyrighted song and even then we had to take down the video within a couple months IIRC.
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Yup. Now, consider that the average author makes less than $5K in royalties on the average book, and the same with the average podcast. It would be financial suicide to license music or lyrics on those terms.