There is much discussion on this topic between music producers, music libraries and professional music buyers. This blog post is our view on Content ID. Now, I don’t want you to think that I am only looking at this from a one-sided point of view. Although royalty free music is one of our main areas […]
[VIDEO Tutorial] Professional Music Buyers Guide
We published a series of posts last year ‘Professional Music Buyers Guide‘ that looked at the various aspects of music royalties, the different types of music libraries and how these can affect use of music. Following on from this we have created a video tutorial bringing all these posts together. You can watch this below. […]
Royalty Free Music Previews Without Watermarks, Crazy or Shrewd?
Recently, we have become aware of some royalty free music libraries that do not protect their music previews with watermarks. On Media Music Now we provide full track previews but every 10-12 seconds or so the word “preview” or “Media Music Now” can be heard. While some may find this mildly irritating, providing there is […]
Royalty Free Music for Relaxation and Meditation
Today’s post showcases a piece of relaxing and zen-like royalty free music. The track is called Morning Serenity from our relaxation and meditation category. You can listen to it in the video below. This piece of royalty free music is perfect for any production that requires a relaxing and meditative background ambience, giving the feel […]
Cinematic Royalty Free Music for Games, Trailers & Film
Following the recent launch of our royalty free music collections site royaltyfreemusic.uk.com, we have put together a 5 and a half minute video showcasing tracks featured in our Cinematic Themes Collection 1. The full collection is available to license and download online, however, you may only want to license one or two tracks from it, […]
Royalty Free Music to Soothe and Relax
While browsing our royalty free music I ended up playing one of our chill-out ambient tracks called Dreamland and as I am feeling in rather a chilled mood today I thought I would showcase it in a video that you can watch below. The music along with the images accompany the idea of complete relaxation, […]
Professional Music Buyers Guide: Round-up
For those of you that may have missed our recent Professional Music Buyers Guide series, we’ve created a round-up so you can catch up on them from one place. If you’re a media professional that licenses music for your productions then this guide is for you. If there are any areas of music licensing that […]
Professional Music Buyers Guide: Working with Clients
Should I license music on behalf of my client or let my client license it directly? Ideally, let your client license the music directly. This way they are the license holder and you are using the music in their production as instructed. This limits your liability as the client has licensed the music directly. It […]
Professional Music Buyers Guide: Understanding Content ID
Content ID is a relatively new technology that crops up more and more these days, which is why we chose to include it in this Professional Music Buyers Guide series. If you have licensed music legally, but still received a Copyright notice from YouTube for the musical content in your video, chances are this is […]
Professional Music Buyers Guide: Understanding Royalty Collection Societies
Royalty Collection Societies were set-up many years ago to collect royalties on behalf of mainstream artists. Each country (territory) has their own. They cover and collect royalties for performance of music and mechanical duplications. There are so many music uses these days that online video, music on hold and shop promos for example can now […]
