The struggle is real. The song that we chose, Layla, we need to get the rights to use it. We sent an email to the Atlantic and WarnerBros records because they own the song. Here is the email:

Atlantic Records,

Good afternoon, My name is Darren Naville and I am contacting you in behalf of my AICE Media Studies group. I am emailing you to ask if I can use the song Layla, by Derek and the Dominos, for a non-profit school project. This project is for the AICE media studies class at Cypress Bay High school. I hope to use your song in our film introduction which is the main component of our assignment. We would like to obtain rights to use the song for this one time only, as it is the only way we can use this song for our project. This video is for educational purposes only and we have no means or intentions to make a profit off of it or the song, we hope to use. As a sincere fan of the song I hope you consider granting us written consent to use it in our assignment. The assignment will be turned into our teacher and the Cambridge board for grading and will not be sold for material gain. Once again I hope you consider granting us consent to use your music and I hope to hear from you soon.

Thank you for your time,

Darren Naville

It was hard to find out who to email first. I also went to the Eric Clapton page to see if there would be a why to contact him to ask. There was no email or anything on the website. Hopefully I emailed the right person and we get the rights to the song. In the email we wanted to make sure they knew that we weren't going to gain any money from using the song. I'll let you know if we get it or if we have to choose another song.

 Eric Clapton Official Website. (n.d.). Retrieved March 31, 2016, from http://www.ericclapton.com/