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11 years, 5 months ago - Chris W

As a music supervisor and owner of a label that offers really high quality production music (both PRS registered royalty-free content) I often get asked 'What IS royalty-free music?'

It is a little confusing sometimes, so below is an extract from our excellent knowledge-base which helps clarify a few things.

You can read the full article here http://bit.ly/KnowledgebaseRF

Royalty Free Music is NOT free!

It is “Free of Royalty” not cost free. Just like a fat free cookie is “free of fat” not free of cost. Or a “tax free” product is not free, it is just free of taxes. And yes some people may be offering their music for free – whether it is also Royalty Free or not! For example a composer may be offering you his music for free for your College film in exchange for listing his work in the credits.

Royalty Free Music is NOT poor quality music

Any music can be licensed as Royalty Free music. The good the bad and the ugly. This choice for music licensing has strictly nothing to do with the quality of the music itself. The quality will vary enormously from one library to the other. The quality of library music has more to do with management & A&R policies, whether the music is hand-picked or not, whether composers are screened or not, etc.

All our FullWerks content is very high quality both musically and dynamically.

Royalty Free Music is NOT cheap music
Royalty free music can licensed at any price. It is not a price structure, it is simply a licensing model. You can find Royalty Free music for £30 and you can find it for £3000. It has nothing to do with pricing, it has to do with the licensing model of not charging royalties each time the music is used. This being said most of the time music licensed with a Royalty Free model is fairly inexpensive and affordable for most people.

You can also listen to some of our music here http://bit.ly/FW_Royalty_free

I hope gain something out of this.

Many thanks, Chris.