Music Library Models
There are any number of business models used by various music libraries, all of which have pros and cons in how they work, how much they support your catalog, and how involved they are in the actual licensing process. Following is an overview of music libraries, how they work, and a few caveats about your intellectual property... There’s a difference between libraries of music and sounds and music libraries (it’s all in the syntax!): The former are banks of sounds—sampled fro
A Cautionary Tale About Music Re-titling
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I first posted this on 06 June 2012... but it disappeared when we had to redo the website from scratch due to some hacking issues. I still feel the same about re-titling [no surprise to those who know me]. I am constantly being barraged with the question “What’s so wrong with re-titling?” and statements such as, “It’s only assigning a revenue stream to whoever is making the placement—just like a publishing administration fee paid.” Those are issues to be addres