Music Library Epidemic Sound have had a huge amount of composers up in arms about it’s business model, saying how writing for them could seriously destroy an up and coming composers career. Epidemic’s co-founder and CEO, Oscar Hoglund, says Epidemic’s biggest creators make “”tens of thousands of dollars per month” with them. In …
If you want to get your music licenced into production music libraries for film and TV, should you register that music yourself first with your Performing Rights Organisation, such as ASCAP, BMI or PRS for Music? I’m going to cover this important question in the video below. With the library I run, we …
UPDATE – Since the post below was written, Discovery Networks have U-Turned on their decision to proceed with Direct Licensing. However, we will leave the below post active as a guide to Direct Licensing in general. The hot topic in the media composer community right now is that Discovery Networks (who own Discovery Channel, …
If the ins and outs of royalties regarding Library Music leave you a bit confused, here’s a simple guide to how it all works, from the very basic through to a few common questions. What is a royalty? What we’ll be talking about here are “performing royalties”. Simply put, these are recurring payments …