brenwestfall Posted February 16, 2004 Report Posted February 16, 2004 Does anyone have any idea about using music with slideshows that might be purchased by a client??? Is there a way to find music that is copyright free? Quote
Severn Bore Posted February 16, 2004 Report Posted February 16, 2004 Try "Royalty free music" on a search engines such as Google. This will bring up several sites where royalty free music can be purchased via download or CD. Quote
Ken Cox Posted February 16, 2004 Report Posted February 16, 2004 Brenwelcome to the forumif you use the forum's search feature and searh forRoyalty free musicyou will find a lot of discussion on the matterken Quote
Digital Stories Posted February 16, 2004 Report Posted February 16, 2004 Hello Bren(Whilst the others guys have mentioned that you can get royalty free music off the net by searching through Google etc, I don't think that this was your problem - you are trying to trace whether a specific piece of music is royalty free???? Is this right???)It depends upon what the music your client has provided.........unless he can produce a royalty free licence, I would guess that it is not royalty free and it is covered by copyright. When I purchase royalty free music off the net, the retailer always forwards to me a licence, whether it be by post or electronically, with all my address details on it.The other way to establish whether it is royalty free is to do a search on the composer or the production company on the net and their website may give you a clue..........assuming you know the composer/production company/orchestra/band etc or even the name of the piece........if it's classical music then if the composer has been dead over 50 years then it's public domain although the orchestra still has copyright over that production of that piece of music!What does your client want you to use it for? i.e. one presentation for internal use or for major distribution around the area/country etc? Happy hunting............ DS Quote
Ken Cox Posted February 16, 2004 Report Posted February 16, 2004 Brenhere is a starthttp://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...ct=ST&f=2&t=299a ton of links and infoken Quote
Ronniebootwest Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 The easy answer is to get in touch with www.bbdigital.co.uk who will provide you with some excellent CD's on copyright free music. Quote
cameraman Posted February 21, 2004 Report Posted February 21, 2004 According to the legal department of BMI and ASCAP you may use copyrighted music and sell a slide show to your client as long as your client brings in the music on a commercial CD which they personally own. You are selling the creation of the show itself, not the music. The music is for their own personal use and therefore can be copied, even by you to be put into their show. No licensing fee is required for this type of use. Again, the customer must own the original CD and you must copy it from that CD to make it all legal.Where you fall into trouble is if you use YOUR music or downloaded music to sell or present the show, in public or even in your studio. Sending out samples of your work with copyrighted music is illegal. true in the USA. Not sure of other countries. Quote
Barry Beckham Posted February 26, 2004 Report Posted February 26, 2004 ROYALTY FREE MUSIC AND GOOD STUFF TOOI can point anyone who is interested to the web page below where royalty free music is available on CD.http://www.barrybeckham.co.uk/music/music.htmFor around £20 you get a royalty free CD with some super music on it and there are 3 volumes and a 4th in the making.bbdigital Quote
jersey cat Posted September 2, 2016 Report Posted September 2, 2016 I know this is an old thread, but anyone currently looking for free music should try http://www.freemusicpublicdomain.com/ Quote
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