Monday, 26 January 2015

Task 4a - Royalty Free Music

Royalty free music is music which is mainly downloaded from the internet for use within videos and projects of all shapes and sizes. The term royalty free refers to a type of licensing agreement which allows the person who buys a piece of music to use said piece of music as much as they like and for as many different projects as they like while only making one fixed payment if this is required. Music which does have royalties  attached to it comes at a fee each time the piece of music is used for an advertisement or whatever the piece has been intended for, this means that each time the music is played, the cost of the royalties is sent to the creator. However, royalty free music has a one time payment when you first purchase the track and no additional costs for each time the music is used meaning the person who wishes to buy the track does not have to pay additional fees each time they wish to use the piece of music. A lot of people believe that royalty free music is free, however, this is not necessarily the case. Some of the creators of the royalty free music may make their work available for download for free as they just want to get their music out there and known however some other creators charge a small fee for downloading the track initially simply because it is a product they have created and do not want to give it away for nothing if they have put a lot of hard work and effort into it. A lot of the time though, the price of the of the track is not too pricey and they are often affordable for a lot of people.  This is because royalty free means free of royalty, not free of cost meaning the creator of the track is entitled to charge as much or as little as they wish for the music which they create. There are various websites which are great for finding royalty free music in order to use in projects such as this, a couple of websites which I found particularly useful were Bensound.com and purple-planet.com. Both of these websites are free to download music from and offer a wide range of royalty free music. Below I have shown some of the tracks which I liked, these tracks are nice calm and gentle tracks which I thought would be perfect to tie into my theme of a cup of tea as this is quite a gentle subject.

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