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How to Legally Use Music in Your Films and Videos | Dare Dreamer Magazine — Wed, 30 May 2012 11:59:21 +0000

[…] Specialized Music Sites: Sites like Triple Scoop Music, Vimeo Music Store, With Etiquette, Shawn Reeder Music, Stock20, SongFreedom, Incompetch (free or donation requested. Wider use of music allowed), Truetone Productions, Music2Hues, The Music Bed, Catalyst Sound, PremiumBeat.com ShaunPaul.com, AffixMusic, and Greg V Music (free or donation requested. Wider use of music allowed) offer songs that you can legally include in your wedding, event, and corporate productions that you use in short DVD runs, on-hold music, or for online use. (Although TSM is my usual go-to site whenever I need a quality song, I have used music from several of these sites at one time or another. See below.) Rates for these songs range from $48 to $100 per song. I know that is considerably more expensive than the buck you’d pay for a copyrighted song on iTunes, but these rates are a bargain compared to what you’d traditionally pay for these kind of licenses. Keep in mind that for some of these sites, there is an additional license fee required if you want to use the song for broadcast TV, feature film, or any other high volume enterprise. UPDATE: Make sure you check the licensing terms and not just the price. The length of time you can legally use them range from as low as 1 year to as much at 99 years for Triple Scoop Music songs. You could find yourself unable to use a song you purchased over a year ago. So read that part carefully. None of the sites seem to make it up front and obvious how long you can license. (Read my post on the top 3 music licensing terms you shouldn’t ignore.) […]

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