Jul 05 2010

Where To Find Royalty-Free Music

Category: Multimedia & Video, Online ResourcesEthan G. Salwen @ 4:55 pm

Like royalty-free images, royalty-free music can be found by the in amazing varieties and quantities on the Web. Just do a Google search, and you’ll see.

Ralph Clevenger, who inspired me to embrace royalty-free music, suggested I check out these sites:

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Royalty-Free Music Suggestions?

Not really sure how I ended up using Premiumbeat.com for the $29.95 worth of music I used in my “Royalty-Free Buenos Aires,” but I was just experimenting, and I was left wondering. . .With all the royalty-free music sits and services, certainly some have got to be better than others. So. . .

If you are ahead of me on this royalty-free music learning curve — which wouldn’t be hard — are there royalty-free music services and basic concepts that you might share with me, and my thousands of faithful readers?

SmartSound and Sonicfire Pro?

As long as you’re Continue reading “Where To Find Royalty-Free Music”

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Jul 04 2010

Royalty-Free Music Rocks, Rolls and (Legally) Produces Drama

Category: Multimedia & VideoEthan G. Salwen @ 10:55 am

“Most songs are copyright protected, and cannot be used unless they are licensed,” Ralph Clevenger emphasized when we talked the other day. Actually, he emphasized this point a number of times, noting that this very obvious point is not so very obvious to many photographers putting images to sound.

I wasn’t to me, which is why for my “Milonga de Sal y Pimienta” video, which I posted here in May, I totally — major oops — stole music from Gotan Project to achieve my artist goal. I just wasn’t thinking, inspired by the music itself to make my video. Heck, the music is the best part of the piece!

It’s no excuse, but I think my music-using ignorance is somewhat understandable. After all, millions of YouTube videos feature illegally-used music, and, right or wrong, this has given me a sense that using music any which way is AOK. Well, it’s not. Just like it’s not OK for people to use our images without permission.

To get myself on the right side of the intellectual property of music, yesterday I threw this little baby together, appropriately called, “Royalty-Free Buenos Aires.”

It’s clearly nothing special, but Continue reading “Royalty-Free Music Rocks, Rolls and (Legally) Produces Drama”

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