There are numerous music libraries that sell music licenses on behalf of composers, each with their own proprietary license agreements and procedures. Let’s look at the different types: Royalty Free Music (Staffed with A&R) These businesses have staff that carefully listen to and select royalty free music for their catalogue. It is fair to say […]
Professional Music Buyers Guide: Understanding Music Royalties
What are the different types of music royalties and how do they work? Conventional music royalties can be a complicated subject. However, in order to keep this piece short and to the point we are going to generalise and cover the 3 most relevant aspects for a professional music buyer. These are: – Sync (or […]
Professional Music Buyers Guide: Introduction
There is a lot of information out there about what royalty free music is, but with the abundance of music libraries and the varying license agreements it’s no wonder that many professional music buyers are not fully aware of what licenses they are buying and do not always understand how certain aspects may affect them […]
Royalty Free Music Collections Now Online
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new music collections website RoyaltyFreeMusic.uk.com The website will concentrate on collections of royalty free music rather than individual tracks and loops that we currently have on our Media Music Now website. Each collection can be previewed, purchased and downloaded instantly online. You will also find our […]
Easily Create and Store Lists of Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects
We have created a new list function on Media Music Now aimed at helping clients easily create and store lists of royalty free music and sound effects. The ‘My Lists’ function is easy to use and lists you create will be saved in your Media Music Now account area. You can create and name as many lists as you […]
Introducing Public Safe Music, No PRS & No PPL fees
For some time now we have received requests for music that is safe to play as public background music without having to pay money to Performance Royalty Organisations (PRO’s). Until now there has been no easy answer. Here is the problem Royalty free music is often registered with PRO’s by the composer to capture potential […]
Royalty Free Romantic Music
With Valentine’s Day just a couple of weeks away, what better way to get in the romantic mood than with a short music video montage of our royalty free romantic music available to license and download from our royalty free music library. These selection of royalty free tracks are the perfect accompaniment to your romantic […]
Royalty Free Christmas Music
Christmas is almost here again so what better way to get in the festive spirit and celebrate the holiday season than with some royalty free Christmas music. I have put together a video slideshow of some original royalty free Christmas music new to Media Music Now. These royalty free Christmas tracks are festive, fun, happy […]
Royalty free music – 6 myths uncovered
Myth 1 – Royalty free music is free to use Probably the most misleading term ever. It may may have free in the name but royalty free music is not free to use. The free part refers to the fact that no ongoing royalty payments are due for using the music, unlike conventional music licensing. […]
I have used your royalty free music for on hold use, do I need to pay any additional licenses?
From time to time our clients are approached by PRO’s (Performance Royalty Organisations) and asked to pay royalties for using our music in their phone system. This usually comes as a shock as they are often using royalty free music to save money on royalties. The problem arises because many independent composers put their music […]
