Music Publishing and Licensing Blog

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The LicenseQuote business model

The LicenseQuote business model started and evolved from a focus on the ability for music publishers and their clients to easily calculate licensing costs and negotiate various licensing deals. This article explores some of the history and current trends that have shaped our music licensing solutions business model and service platform. Free calculator widget launched […]


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Promoting and growing your music catalog

Occasionally we get questions from our newer publishing clients how to best manage their music catalog growth, marketing and sales promotion.  If you are a publisher with an interest in promoting and growing your music catalog and licensing store, this article will give you an outline of tips and suggestions to help you get started, […]


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How experienced music creators can increase their sales revenues

If you are an experienced music creator (songwriter, composer, producer, etc.) with a successful music licensing sales history from other music library services, this article will explain why and how you can increase your music licensing sales revenues and future income profits. Experienced music creators (see our Gallery) are using LicenseQuote to increase their existing […]


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Interview with a music supervisor

This article features some excellent advice for music creators from professional music supervisor Wendy Levy about placing music in television, which can also be applied to film and other media. This expert testimony Q & A interview article was published on the Berklee College of Music site under the title: Advice from a pro about […]


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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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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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