Monday, June 11, 2012

Production Music Library is a unique platform for licensed music. Like many music licensors, the production music library licenses music for your productions. These productions are commercials, TV series, Reality TV, videos and Feature Films which require background music, main titles, or original score. There is an advantage for composers to use a production music library. Even if your work is copied or someone produces similar music to yours, then a cue sheet can be filed and you will be paid royalties that the song generates when placed in TV or Film. Some libraries may buy the rights from you completely, while others will give you partial rights. Partial rights mean that, the library can license the music with the permission of the composer. Music is considered to be a universal language and it is due to this that some productions choose background music in commercials, television, film, video games, and webisodes. Many productions in the past have had to deal with heavy law suits for using music which they thought they had bought from the copyright owner. This is not the case with most production music libraries, as they are usually one-stop shops, securing both master and synch rights. This method of getting music for marketing is the cheapest way for many productions. Other choices may include to hire a few composers that make their own music, which will require thousands of dollars. Additionally, the option of buying rights to a song, which will again cost several thousand dollars. Buying from a music production library usually requires a much smaller fee. The production music library charges its clients on the extensiveness of the usage of the music. These charges vary on the rights granted, Local TV, National TV, Internet, Feature Film, etc., blanket rates, where a client can pay a one time or yearly subscription fee, and have access to the entire catalog. Or the production music library can license their music on a needle drop basis, where the client is charged per track and per use.

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