Music Publishing and Licensing Blog

Archive for 2011

Music Publishing And Licensing group

This article gives an introduction to the Music Publishing And Licensing group, it’s purpose and a survey of some of the Discussion topics among our professional members. LicenseQuote founded and manages the Music Publishing And Licensing group on LinkedIN with the following general description: Music PAL is a professional group for music publishers, music supervisors, […]


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Dick Dale music business advice

This LicenseQuote article includes a YouTube video and transcript of an interview (by Tommy Liberto) with the legendary king of surf guitar about the music publishing and commercial licensing business. The basic principals of Dick Dale’s advice can be applied to most music composers, singer-songwriters, bands and record producers, etc. There’s lots to learn in […]


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Find Publishers feature

The new Find Publishers search page makes it easy for music supervisors and licensing buyers coming to LicenseQuote to find your publisher listing to learn more about your music publishing and licensing business. The new features and updates described below will help you get familiar with these powerful new search engine tools that help promote […]


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Sold licenses: typical license types, terms and pricing

This article lets you explore a sampling of typical music licensing deals which have been transacted via the LicenseQuote global stores used by our member publishers, library owners and their clients. For each transaction we list the license type, selected usage terms and sold license price.  For convenience the sampling of typical sold licenses (listed […]


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Evil vs Good new music industry

This article explores some of the bad, questionable and evil practices and elements of the music industry. As an active long-standing member since 2002 of the Just Plain Folks music organization, I and many JPF members have seen nearly every kind of music industry sharks and scams imaginable surface for “discussion” (i.e. blatant self-promotion and […]


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Sound effects can promote your production music library

LicenseQuote has found that publishers offering free sound effects could effectively increase both their website traffic and music licensing sales. For music licensing clients that will need a variety of production music tracks, it can increase SEO value as well as customer relations and service value. By using popular music industry keywords on your website, […]


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Starting your own successful music licensing store

This year we’ve been getting an increasing number of inquiries from various music industry people who’d  like to start an online music licensing store to help musicians (artists, bands, composers, songwriters,  etc.) license their music. Often they are songwriters who already have a small catalog, but would like to grow it more rapidly, and sometimes […]


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Welcome music licensing buyers!

Thank you for visiting LicenseQuote! Recently we launched our global stores search feature so you can easily find music for your advertising, audio production and any other media projects. Get instant quotes, request pricing, make offers, negotiate custom deals and license directly from a growing network of hundreds of music publishers, brands and catalogs. LicenseQuote […]


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Find music – search features and tips

LicenseQuote now has a Global Store Find Music page which offers a variety of powerful, dynamic music search features. This article provides an introduction with tips for our music publishing clients and their existing (and potential new) music licensing clients coming to LicenseQuote to find and source music to license for their various commercial projects. […]


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Find music by genres

There are many ways to find music from LicenseQuote powered stores. You can search by brands, (e.g. artist/composer names) catalogs, genres, subgenres, tags and various track description keywords which includes the song/track title and any portions of the file names. Of course one of the easiest and most popular ways to find music to preview […]


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