LucasFilm Copyright Release Question.

I'm in an advanced Broadcasting class at my high school. My class has filmed a movie lasting about 10 to 15 minutes called Marvin's Revenge.

In the movie there is an Indiana Jones scene as well as a Light Saber Fight.
We use all of our own characters, but we have the "battle of the heros" track in the background for the star wars scene and hte "Raiders march" track in for the indy scene.

My film teacher thinks our movie is really good and wants to enter it in our state short film festival, but he said we will have to take out the John Williams's music and replace it with something we create ourselves on garage band because of copyright law.

I'm wondering if there is anyway our class can contact LucasFilm to get a copyright release so we don't have to do that, because the john williams music is one of the reasons our movie looks so good, lol.

Thanks to anybody with information.

 

That would probably be pretty tough to do, not to mention a very time consuming process (going through all the proper channels and all). I would recommend using some John Williams-esque music you create just to "avoid any Imperial entanglements". I have no idea, but there might be some public domain music that would fit the bill.

 

That would also be my answer to the music question: find something that's in the public domain.

 

You would need to contact Lucasfilm Licensing and/or Sony Music. But I doubt they would give a free permission, especially if it's not incidental music, and also because it's for a film festival which would require a release. That would probably cost a few thousand dollars.

There are other options like Jamendo, where youcan find composers an music releasedunder various creative commons licenses (some allow free use as long as you just credit it).