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Alternative production music from around the world with immediate broadcast synchronisation license (Royalty Free).
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    Legal Stuff:

"But I thought it was Royalty Free!" Read on....

    The Copyright Issue:

    All commercially recorded music is controlled by Copyright Law and the use of any music without permission infringes the copyright laws of most countries (even so called "Royalty Free" or "buy-out" music).

    Seeking such permision or clerance can be very expensive and time consuming. You would need to approach the owner, publisher or legal distributor of the composition and the sound recording in order to purchase a 'sync' or mechanical rights license. Many other production music llibraries will require you to first register with a mechanical / sync rights organisation such as the MCPS, then get a 'T' number and finally pay an exhorbitant fee for the right to use the track in your production.

    The terms of our license to you:

    We have licensed the right to sell all the sound recordings found in our library and grant you the user upon purhcase, this necessasry clearance.

    When you purchase a track from us we are granting you a mechanical (sync) and performance ( broadcast) licence to use the music in your productions for Public Broadcast which will cover usage in the whole world and forever.
    This is what has commonly become known as " Royalty Free" or "Buy-out" and should NOT be interpereted literally as "Having no Copyright" or there being no associated performance (broadcast) royalties, which are paid by the broadcasting network (not you).

    So, upon each purchase, you receive an automatic licence allowing you to dub (mechanical /synch) the music onto your Television, or Internet productions and use it in a public broadcast (performance). As part of the licence you will also be able to distrubute your production to networks around the world, without paying any further fees.


    Television / Cable / Satelite Broadcast:


    All we ask, is that you fill out a Cue Sheet if the production is destined for public broadcast on any type of television channel. It will not cost you any money, just five minutes of your time and will ensure that the creators of the music will get their fair share of blanket broadcast performance royalties that are paid by broadcasters to the various royalty collection societies round the world.

    To make life easier for you, you can fill in a cue sheet from here, Cue Sheet and we will take care of the rest!

    You can see the full User Agreement that you will have to agree to before downloading, from here: User Agreement

    Motion Picture / Feature Film / Cinema:


    If The Film has a budget of more than $1,000,000, you will need to contact us to negotiate a Synchronization license for a very reasonable fee.This fee will also give you a full license to go on to distribute to cinemas worldwide and manufacture unlimited DVD (or any other future media) copies.
    Please contact us with details of your project.

    For a film with a budget below this figure, all you need to pay will be the $30 download fee, but you will still need to fill out a Cue Sheet.

    Web pages / Internet Streaming:


    This is a complex and fast changing legal environment, but to be safe, please filll out a Cue Sheet.
    For web pages hosted in the UK, there are various types of licenses for internet broadcast available from the PRS (Performing Rights Society), depending on how you are going to use the music on your site.
    We reccomend that you have a look at their guidance notes from here. If in doubt, or have any questions, then you should contact them directly.

    In the USA you can see how it works from here. If in doubt, or have any questions, then you should contact them directly. For other countries you should contact the national PRO (Performing Rights Organization) of your country

    You can see a list of most of the world's PROs from here:
    List of PROs (royalty societies) worldwide

    Personal / non-commercial / not for public broadcast:


    If your production is never going to be broadcast to the public, it might be a family wedding for example, then none of the above applies and all you will ever have to pay is the one-off download payment.

    Sampling:

    You cannot use the tracks for the following:
  • To create new musical compositions using samples, beats or loops taken from any of our tracks.
  • To create new sample library collections for commercial sale or use, or in virtual software based instruments.
    In other words......."NO SAMPLING!"

    However, if you would like to use a sampled loop or beat from one of our tracks in your song or composition, you can obtain a license to do so, without all the expense of specialist "sample clearance" lawyers, directly from us, for a very reasonable fee.

If you would like to see even more detail including common legal terms and definitions, you can see them here: