Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Uses of Production Music

By Raynold Oscar


Production music is written and recorded for the express purpose of being used in the media like TV and the movies. This type of music may be licensed from many different libraries that own the numerous copyrights to the music. Generally, the production music library licenses this music. The fees to license this type of music might be rather inexpensive or rather expensive but usually this depends on the size of the audience who listens to the music.

Media producers can conveniently license production music. Typically, the libraries for production music will have many different selections of music available, and any of these tracks can be licensed for a fee that is reasonable. The music libraries' size will differ from only a few music tracks to many thousands music tracks in their catalogues. Some of the bigger music libraries have been around since the beginning of the 20th century. Most of these libraries are currently owned by the large music companies such as EMI and Sony and EMI, and they have become a large part of the financial side the bigger music industry.

Libraries for production music make their income in two ways. The synchronization fees are one source of income and the performance royalties are the other source of income. These licensing fees are paid by the media producers who allow them to incorporate some or all of the music into their media production. The fees are largely dependent on the nature of the project, and are typically are driven by the size of the audience and the amount of time that the production music is played.

Production music is also known as library or stock music. One kind of production music that is very popular is royalty free music. The licenses for the libraries of music that is royalty will cover the license for synchronization. However, generally, it's much easier and only requires a onetime fee for continuous usage.

Because of the way that royalty free music is licensed, the producers of the media can save a lot of money by using it. Royalty free music offers an alternative to the traditional production music licensing fees. The fees for production music licensing can be very expensive which can make the budget for production very costly. Another benefit of royalty free music is that it is significantly simpler for the media producer to administer since normally the royalty free music has a onetime license fee that covers the continued use of the music on the project.

At one time, the media producers received the music from the production music libraries on audio CDs. However, recently, this has started to change because of online models. Currently, media producers can listen to the library tracks online and then download the music tracks that they want since they have already arranged the payment with the website for the license fees.

Production music is a kind of royalty free music that that offers many benefits such as a method of licensing that is easier and more cost effective. All that is required is a onetime license as opposed to the license fees that depend on the size of the audience and the kind of project. This makes it quick and easy to license project music.

There are several advantages to using production music for media like TV and movies. It's readily available, it's intended specifically for the media, nearly every kind of music is available, and the licensing is easy.




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