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Frequently Asked Questions about Royalty Free Music |
So
what is royalty free music?
How do I hear the Audio clips on this site?
Exactly what is the royalty free music licence?
Surely royalty free music can’t be free?
So I only pay once?
Is this all legal?
What about broadcast cue-sheets?
When and why MUST I complete a cue sheet?
Will I have to pay Public Performance fees?
Is your music OK for music on hold?
Can I hear a higher quality sample?
Is it easy to buy online?
Is your e-commerce secure?
Royalty Free Music comes with a licence for you to use the music in your productions, as many times as you want with no further payments. That’s how you can save money.
Technically it’s a “synchronisation” license to use the buy out music in timed relation to visual images, ie the license you need to reproduce a piece of music in your audio/visual productions (in the UK, you may have obtained these in the past from the MCPS, in the US from ASCAP or BMI). In summary our royalty free music can be used for Television, radio, corporate productions, presentations, mass-market retail distribution, Internet and films. Read our licence here.
Surely royalty free music can’t be free?
Although popularly known as “royalty free music”, a more accurate description would be “licence-paid”. Not only do the tracks cost far less than many other licences, but the other big advantage is that once you’ve bought the CD(s), your licence covers multiple uses. The licence is to you (or your company) not the specific project you’re working on, so you can use the royalty free music track(s) over and over again, on as many projects as you like.
Absolutely - once you’ve paid for the production music CD(s), you’re licenced to use the track(s) on as many productions as you wish.
Yes - what you as the producer must do is have the permission of the copyright owner to use a piece of music. Our composers grant you the permission you need directly, in exactly the same way as if you’d commissioned a piece of music from them.
What about broadcast cue-sheets?
Simply complete them as usual, telling the broadcaster the royalty free music track titles and composer’s names etc. This enables the broadcasters to tell the relevant performance rights societies, so that performance royalties can be distributed as usual. This still costs you, as the producer, nothing! If your production is not a film, TV or radio broadcast, you do not need a cue sheet. This still costs you, as the producer, nothing!
When and why MUST I complete a cue sheet?
Composers are entitled to a performance fee from radio stations, television
stations, theaters outside the U.S. for the right to publicly perform their
songs as synchronized in a film, television production, advertisement or other
medium. Licensees must therefore prepare an accurate cue sheet of all
royalty free music used in the production to assist in the collection of these
performance fees by the composer or the composer's designated performing rights
society. Licensees should contact their local performing rights society regarding
cue sheet reporting requirements such as BMI (usa), ASCAP (usa), PRS (uk), France's
SACEM, Germany's GEMA and Japan's JASRAC. See links page.
Not to us - the license we give does not include Public Performance rights. As with all copyrighted music, public performances must be notified to the local performing rights organisation. With TV & Radio it is typically the responsibility of the radio station or television station to obtain a license and pay the necessary fees, so if you are the Production Company, you will pay nothing - but you will have to give the broadcaster a cue sheet listing all royalty free music used ( see above). Check with your Local Performance Rights organization about their policy and rates for other Public Performances.
Yes. If you produce music on hold packages for clients, you have no other fees to pay. In some countries music on hold is classified as a public performance or broadcast, so the end user (who actually owns the music on hold telephone system) may have to pay an annual fee to their local Performing Rights Organisation. Check with your Local Performance Rights organisation about their policy.
How do I hear the Audio Clips on this site?
You need to have "Flash" installed on your computer. "Flash" is an internet-standard program for playing back audio, and comes pre-installed on 98% of cimputers. To see if you have the latest version you can easily test by visiting http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ , or to install "Flash" (it's a simple one-click process), please visit http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
Can I hear a higher quality sample?
Yes - here's an example of our music in high quality MP3 format.
Absolutely
- at the top of each CD detail page is a 
button,
just click to add this CD to your list.
A new window will open in your browser in a few seconds, showing your shopping
list. If you click the "continue shopping" tab, the window will "fold
down" to the bottom of your screen allowing you to continue browsing, if
you click "checkout" you'll be asked for your details to enable the
purchase of your royalty free music CDs.
Yes, payments are processed for us by PayPal, using the highest level of security encryption available - here's what they say about it: "The security of your information, transactions, and money is the core of our business and our top priority at PayPal. PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information in transit from your computer to ours using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits (the highest level commercially available). Before you even register or log in to our site, our server checks that you're using an approved browser - one that uses SSL 3.0 or higher. Once your information reaches us, it resides on a server that is heavily guarded both physically and electronically. Our servers sit behind an electronic firewall and are not directly connected to the Internet, so your private information is available only to authorized computers."
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