This article explores some of the approaches music publishers and library owners can use to offer subscription “blanket” music licensing terms for the commercial use of their music catalogs. Since this discussion involves the nature of Royalty Free music licensing practice, lets start with a summary of the main principals behind royalty free music. For […]

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Recently one of our Music Publishing And Licensing group members, Ron Mendelsohn, CEO at Megatrax Production Music, posted an interesting discussion about Ephermeral Music Use. His leading question in the discussion title was: “Can shows like ‘Good Morning America’, ‘Today’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ really use your music for free? Ron asked our members to […]

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This music industry business report, from a recent Music Publishing And Licensing group discussion, provides helpful tips and advice from a variety of  experienced music publishers and library owners. We’ll highlight some important keys to success for any kind of music publisher or library, regardless of the physical size of their catalog, mix of tracks […]

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If you plan to use anyone’s music compositions or recordings, other than your own music or songs which are now in public domain, you’ll need to clear music the right way before using them in any of your projects. This article describes how to get proper music clearance and licensing for the songs and tracks […]

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After doing some research, asking publishers and checking some stats, I was able to compile a list of the most common kinds of music licensing buyers. Many are actual (specific) titles, while the rest are more general descriptions representing broader categories. Identifying the most commons kinds of music licensing buyers In answering the question: “Who […]

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If you are interested in publishing and licensing your music, follow the basic steps in this guide to start setting up and promoting your own music licensing store and keep 100% of all your licensing sales! 1. Register your songs First you should register your songs with your country’s copyright office (most now offer online […]

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Over the years our Music PAL (Publishing And Licensing) industry group has had many discussions about songwriters, composers, publishers and libraries marketing and promoting their music licensing sales. These discussions started in April 2008 when the group first launched. Since then we’ve grown to 10,940 members (to date) which includes music copyright owners and publishers […]

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This article provides a list with descriptions about the new Type and Source metadata used for the publisher’s own stores and the LicenseQuote and some new (upcoming) global search filters to be used on the Find Music page. Use of these filters in your own licensing store is optional (go to Tracks/Songs > Configure > […]

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This article highlights some of the most important keys to music publishing and licensing success. It also shows how LicenseQuote helps music creators, publishers and libraries get the most from their music publishing, sub-publishing and licensing success. First, some important criteria which are the full responsibility of each publisher and library owner. Music composition, production […]

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This month, October 2011, several new features and options were developed and updated to the LicenseQuote site for all our publishing clients to discover and use. This article highlights several of the most important and frequently requested new features. Custom metadata fields On the Tracks/Songs admin page, you can now add and manage up to […]

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