Our focus is on quality. Other stock music libraries issue twice as many CDs with half the tracks and half the quality; making you spend more time looking for the right music. You spend a lot of time on your productions. Your projects deserve the best quality production music you can find.
Our CDs contain double the music over other stock music libraries. You get 12 or more full length songs and as many broadcast length and alternate versions as we can fit onto each disc. No other royalty free music library provides your with this much value at such a low cost per track.
Our royalty free music comes on audio CD or MP3 downloads. You can choose individual tracks, save money buying the CDs, or save even more buying in quantity. There are price breaks at 10, 20, and 30 CDs as well as great savings on the CD packs shown below.
Flying Hands Blog
Funding Your Footage Fetish
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:02:41 -0500
My client and I didn't sign any paperwork before I shot their company video and there's lots of raw footage leftover that didn't get used. Who owns that footage?
Bill, FL
Now I understand why my high school valedictorian chose a career in intellectual property law (smart bastard).
There are huge gaps with this issue between what the law technically states, how courts have historically ruled and what is considered to be standard business practice between most small businesses and independent video companies. According to research that you should NOT construe as legal advice, the answer is, "Yes," the copyrights to the footage technically belong to you. But before you start uploading the footage onto sites such as our own http://www.stockxpert.com, for example, there are other issues to consider such as model releases, trademarked logos that might be visible in the shots and -- most importantly -- your relationship with your client and crew. An upfront understanding of terms along with signed work-for-hire agreements will always put you in the strongest position all around.
Coming soon to RoyaltyFreeMusic.com customers and subscribers: 43 brand new albums of copyright-free music never before released on RFM including Modern Retail (smooth techno), Web Music Gold (website friendly corporate tracks), Juiced Up (blistering sports metal) and the ENTIRE Flying Hands collection of royalty free stock music. Stay tuned!
Mechanical Licenses and Stock Music
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:52:27 -0500
Am I really allowed to record my own version of "Stairway to Heaven" and sell it on CD? How do statutory mechanical licenses really work?
Marvin, NY
The short answer is yes, Marvin. Years ago, Congress set the per-CD rate that regular folks like you and I should pay to distribute a copyrighted work in physical format such as CD or cassette (roughly $0.10 per song per distributed unit). You'd also have to pay a per song registration fee ranging between $10-$14 depending on whether you submit your paperwork through the Library of Congress or the Harry Fox Agency. We definitely recommend the Harry Fox Agency (http://www.harryfox.com) because of its easy online payment system. However, there are few thresholds you should be aware of. First, the purchase process is much easier if you're distributing less than 2,500 units. Also, your new recording of “Stairway to Heaven” must not deviate so much from the original song to constitute a "derivative work." That would require permission from the original publisher. Also, the song must be 100% represented by Harry Fox Agency. If any of the publishing ownership isn't represented by Harry Fox, you'll have to submit a Notice of Intention to Obtain Compulsory License to the original publisher. You'd still have the right to record the song, but not the convenience of paying one fee through the Harry Fox Agency.
To me, this illuminates the sheer genius behind KidsBop. The producers of those CDs didn't have to negotiate jack for the rights to use those songs. Congress already blazed that trail for them. Pretty neat!
And just to be absolutely clear, all copyright free music for sale at RoyaltyFreeMusic.com is completely devoid of this red tape. Under our standard license agreement, you're allowed to distribute up to 5,000 physical units of our music on CD, DVD, iPod, hard drive, whatever. And this also goes for the incredible royalty free production music found at StudioCutz.com as well as our cool new stock music micropayment site: eStockMusic.com.
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