We would like to try to explain some of the complexities of music use and royalty free music. We’ve tried to make this as short as we could: 1. General royalty free music (PRO Tracks): Most music composers and publishers are members of various composers’ rights organizations. These organizations oversee and look after the composers’ […]
Tag: music copyright
Copyrights and Wrongs
Is music plagiarism cut and dried or are there still ‘Blurred Lines’? Throughout the history of music there have been melodies, rhythms and lyrics that closely resemble existing compositions. So is it clear in the eyes of the law when homage, inspiration or musical parody becomes outright musical theft? History Repeats Itself Despite the controversy […]
Focus on classical music this week
Good quality, royalty free classical music, is hard to come by. That’s just a fact. Why? Because hiring an orchestra, with studio time and engineer, is extremely costly and time consuming. It’s a process that requires meticulous planning and preparation and costs “a small fortune” to get it done. In the “stock music scene” there […]
Keeping track of music copyrights – the difference between Sound Recording ownership and Composition ownership
We received a question by email today which I set about answering in the shortest and clearest way I could. I think it could be a useful piece of information for anybody looking to “use” music in any way, be it for school, for your company, in a public place, and so on. So the […]
Explanation of YouTube Content-ID for Stock Music / Production Music composers
Recently, one of our artists wrote to me with questions about YouTube and his right to receive compensation when his music was used in YouTube videos. I ended up writing a pretty long explanation around the whole YouTube / Content-ID issue, and I just thought it was worth sharing here, in case it can help […]
YouTube, Copyright notices and YouTube Safe Music
Got a “copyright claim” on music licensed from us? If you have licensed a music track from Shockwave-Sound.com and you get a “copyright notice” on your video, where the music ownership is claimed by some company (e.g. CDBaby, AdRev), first of all, rest assured that you’re not in any kind of trouble. […]
Have Yourself A Merry Royalty-Free Christmas
It’s almost Christmas time again and we can see that time coming, as people start buying royalty free Christmas music from our catalogue. Tracks like “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, “Jingle Bells”, “Silent Night” and “O Come All Ye Faithful” are so popular that many of our composers have made their own versions of […]
Cue the Music, Part 1 – Using copyrighted music
“Cue The Music” is a three part series examining the options available to amateur and semi-pro audio/visual producers who wish to incorporate music in their productions. Part one examines the process of clearing copyrighted music. Part two offers 5 alternatives to using copyrighted music. Part three examines the process of using royalty free music. 1. […]
Copyrights in Public Domain music and Classical music
Who owns the rights in classical music by composers such as Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven and Vivaldi? Is it even legal for a company to sell this music and make a profit on it? Shockwave-Sound.com owner/founder Bjorn Lynne sheds some light on the rights in classical music and traditional music. Why are companies such as ourselves […]
Music copyright myths – disspelled
In this article we try to dispel some common myths and misunderstandings about music copyrights, music usage rights and music licensing. “I can use this music for free because I found it on the internet.” No. All music found on the internet is under copyright, unless it specifically states otherwise. In fact, even if […]
