Is royalty free music free?

In fact, royalty free music is a type of music license that allows the buyer to pay for the music only once and use it for as long and as many times as necessary. … Therefore, you need to understand that the definition of royalty free music does not mean that this music is free.

Let’s take a closer look at this.

The world of technology

Today, the global network is developing by leaps and bounds, and with it, the amount of available information is growing. We see a huge amount of video, audio, visual files in free access every day, willy-nilly. But does this mean that we can use these files for our benefit?

As a rule, an ordinary user does not think about it, for example, downloading a song or using a picture found on the Internet as an illustration for his post. But in vain. Sometimes a seemingly harmless act can lead to serious legal problems and even legal proceedings.

Therefore, if your activity is related to the media space or the use of materials for commercial (or any other) benefit, it is worth investigating the issue of licensing and fair use of content.

But, of course, with the growth of this movement, restrictions were also created so that “creators of all kinds of content” could not profit from using other people’s songs or other unlicensed files.

In this case, they may suffer from legal claims for copyright protection. Hence the need to search for royalty free music.

Music as a powerful instrument

Music is not just an addition to your photos or video files; you need to start looking at it as a tool that will help us if we know how to use it correctly.

We live in a time when music no longer only serves to express feelings and ideas but is also used by many as a new way to promote their business or connect with people in a way that has never been seen in the history of cyberspace.

Of course, as this has evolved from an activity that someone can do from time to time as a hobby, to a much more serious topic that can be profitable, formats and tools have been created to make this type much more enjoyable.

Music can help us not only to have fun but also to convey a message, share opinions and even generate topics for discussion that can be very interesting for a certain part of the world’s population.

Royalty Free Music

Royalty Free Music is the best kind of audio you can apply to your own business. With this type of license, the customer pays for the composition once, and after that he can use it at his discretion. After you buy an audio file, you can use it any number of times, throughout your own life. This eliminates the need to transfer fees to the content owner after any fact of playing music.

Royalty Free Music License Types

For free music, 2 large blocks cover different types of licenses:

  • Public domain.
  • Music protected by free licenses.

Public domain

This type of regulation of musical works does not apply to licensing, but it is logical to start with it. The public domain is, in fact, everything that is not licensed. That is, all the music that:

  • copyright-free
  • was voluntarily provided by the author for general use;
  • has never been licensed or the work license has expired.

These works can be used for any, including commercial, purposes, but always marked public domain. However, the recording or reproduction of a piece of music in the public domain is protected. That is why you cannot just use the recordings of Bach or Mozart music for free.

There are 2 inalienable rights to any sound recording: the author’s right to the composition and the author’s right to the recording. No one owns the copyright for a song that is in the public domain, but anyone who spends time and money playing that song and recording it to media will own the copyright on that recording.

Therefore, if tomorrow you play a Bach suite on the piano, record it on your computer and start selling the recording on your website, you will become the owner of the recording (create a so-called “derivative composition” and be able to claim rights for each use. For this reason, record companies and invest in recordings of public domain classical works to sell them for commercial use. 

Music protected by free licenses

Music protected by free licenses differs from the public domain in that the author himself sets restrictions on the reproduction, distribution, and copying of his work. The most common of the free licenses is the CC or Creative Commons classification system, created in 2001 by a group of people tired of fiddling with many different licenses. Creative Commons licenses grant certain rights to third parties who will use music in their projects or videos, under certain conditions.

There are 4 different terms (or “modules”), and 6 different Creative Commons licenses emerge from the different combinations of these terms. Therefore, if someone creates a new song or track, then they can choose one of these six licenses (any to choose from) and say that this song falls under the scope of this license.

Ivan Malkov
Ivan Malkov

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