Royalty Free Music is basically a well-known business model for people in the music industry. This process usually involve getting the license of a particular song or a theme by paying a one-time fee and then using that particular song in your personal projects as long as you want.
Royalty Free Music Taking Root
Some Indie Music artist used this technique to make a name for themselves in the very much saturated music Industry. It started off as a marketing trick and later evolved into a business which is still relatively new. Still new websites are popping up which provide good quality Royalty Free Music But the market is still populated with dominated with big multinational publishing companies.
For example; KPM (which is owned by EMI Universal Music Publishing Group) and Extreme Music (which is owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing)
Royalty Free Music - Described
If you are an independent film maker with a reasonably small budget but you want the music of a professional artist to make that video look perfect then with a small onetime fee you can get the best Music for your video and the plus side is that after you paid the initial price. The Music is now free to use. It doesn’t matter if you want the music one time or in the next 10 videos, you can always use that music because it’s now “Royalty Free”.
It is important to note that if the creator of the music wants to get credited in your video then you may have to do that. Furthermore buying the Royalty free music license doesn’t mean that you have the copyrights of that particular music. The copyrights always belongs to the creator.
Depending on the Royalty Free Music license yout got, you can either use the music for your personal non-profit use or for commercial use. If this music is performed publicly or on television then royalty is paid to the creator.
Organizations like PRO (Performing Rights Organizations) e.g. SESAC, BMI, SOCAN, ASCAP, PRS are paid by the Television Networks and they are in charge of providing money to the Music creators.
Why Royalty Free?
- Professional and polished Music at a very low price.
- Onetime fee and then unlimited personal usage.
- Standard legal and fair license.
- Creator are fairly credited for their work.
YouTube And Royalty Free Music
When we talk about the internet and music we can’t overlook YouTube.
Now YouTube requires you to own the rights of the music you use in your video or have licensed music which is created by someone else.
If you upload the video without following either of these rules your video will be taken down and you will be obliged to use old 8-bit sounds in your videos which is sad.