The term Royalty Free Music means that the music has no additional ongoing fees to pay to the composer(Or label) once the music has been purchased, this is a dream for all the game developers, professional video Producers or Youtubers! When you purchase Royalty Free Music from an online shop, you really need to check out their contract very well, some might implement extra conditions like "Pay us $$$$ when you make so many copies of our song on dvd", this is called a "Mass production license", this can be a real catch because a few clever guys out there are using the "Royalty Free Music" name/term to sell/publish their product but in fact their contract is so complex that you feel like being in a normal online music shop, of course this type of condition can add some serious cost to the final price of the song.
Buying Royalty Free Music from a specialized shop will make the licensing process much easier for both the licensor and the licensee because the contract is simple. An important point to make is that you have 2 types of Royalty Free Music online shops, some may compose their music themselves while others will license composers, the latest can really increase the price of the songs.
How will the composer get paid when I purchase a song at a very low cost?
When a composer decides to sell his songs at a lower cost(Royalty Free Music), a second income stream might comes in if his song(s) is being played by a broadcaster who is actually paying a license to a performing rights organisation like the PRS (Performing Rights Society) in UK or ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) in United States.
Broadcasters have to pay a certain amout of money to the Performing rights organisations in order to have the right to play the music of registered bands/composers.
For example, if you buy a song from a Royalty Free Music shop and add this song to a documentary, the composer will receive a few dollars for each 30 seconds of music being broadcast.
For you to understand the process a little better, if you purchase a Royalty Free Music and add the song to your documentary, you will only pay the price of the song, then you will have to fill in a CUE sheet, this is very important. A cue sheet is just a piece of paper on which you need to add the name(s) of the songs being played in your documentary, the name of the composer and so on.... When your documentary is broadcast, the cue is sent to the Performing Right Organisation which will in turn send a payment to the composer. As you can see, the payment from the Performing Right organisation is not taken from the producer's pocket but instead from the Broadcaster's licensing payments.
If you have a small budget and would like to get on quickly with high quality tracks without worrying about complicated licensing, Look for a Royalty Free Music Online Shop, that's the best purchase you will ever do!
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