I posted a picture of my workplace on Facebook a few days ago. This is the studio that I spend many hours in and as you can see it has mood lighting, which can help to get me into the right frame of mind for making music. This was the day I finished my new corporate motivational track called 'It's a Great Day'. Maybe I should have called it, 'It's a Green Day'. Perhaps not … [Read more...]
The Cost of Singing Happy Birthday
Due to music licensing, it usually costs money to use or perform a musical work that someone owns the copyright on. The exception to this is when a piece of music is in the public domain. This is basically when the copyright expires (copyright rules differ for different parts of the world so I won't get into that here). Back in 2016, it was reported that Warner Chappell … [Read more...]
New Children’s Nursery Rhymes & Songs
In recent times we've found that nursery rhymes have become popular with YouTubers who put the music to their animation in order to monetize their video. This is fine and is covered by our license and we have a page dedicated to using our music on YouTube. However, the Content ID inconvenience can frustrate those who don't understand it, or the process involved. For this reason … [Read more...]
Memories of Christmas Brass Banding Inspire Royalty Free Christmas Music
Much of my teenage life was spent playing the trombone in bands. I especially recall playing in public at this time of year in a variety of brass ensembles. My passion and past-time of playing music turned into composing with sequencing software and ultimately lead me to starting Media Music Now in 2005. Since then their has been no opportunity or time to work on my own … [Read more...]
What is a Fair Royalty-free Music License Fee?
It’s a tricky question of judgment and fairness with no definitive answer. Getting the right balance and charging the right royalty-free music license fee can be difficult. Make it too low, you upset composers, but make it too high, you upset clients. It is competitive out there so the temptation is to create a low one-size-fits-all music license fee. Also, there are no … [Read more...]