For PRO-registered songs the user has to pay an additional fee to the local collecting society:
- Italia: SIAE
- Germany: GEMA
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Please contact your local collecting society to get more information how to calculate the fees.
What about the PRO-registered songs? Does the standard license covers everything for a trailer on a website?
02. Januar 2010Online Advertising license
20. August 2009We offer in our Proud Music Library a new license for online usage on advertising spots on webpages of the licensee. This license is valid for main pages and product microsites included. It is also allowed to stream worldwide, no territorial restrictions. The permission for up to three language versions is included.
Are there further cost after the initial license fee, such as royalties?
04. Juli 2009No, there is no additional cost by Proud Music GbR, as long as you use the tracks according to the permitted uses of the purchased license.
For licended PRO-registered tracks the user have to pay fees to the local collecting society not to Proud Music GbR.
How often is the library being updated?
03. Juli 2009The Proud Music Library is updated constantly with tracks of all genres. More information on new tracks can be found in the news on the main page regularly.
What are the advantages of the Proud Music Library?
02. Juli 2009A summary of good reasons for using the Proud Music Library are explained on our info page.
The national copyright collecting societies
22. Juni 2009Here you can find a list of the different copyright collecting societies of our composers and the corresponding links:
Germany: GEMA “Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte” (musical recordings and performances)
Austria: AKM “Autoren, Komponisten, Musikverleger” (lyricists, composers and music publishers)
Link to the AKM (>service>forms & infos in english)
Switzerland: SUISA (Swiss Association for composers rights)
UK: MCPS-PRS
MCPS “Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society” , PRS “Performing Right Society”
USA: SESAC “Society of European Stage Authors & Composers”, ASCAP “American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers”, BMI ” Broadcast Music Incorporated”
Canada: SOCAN “Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers”
France: SACEM “Société des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs de musique”
Norway: TONO (Copyright collective for authors and composers of musical works)
Italy: SIAE “Società Italiani degli Autori ed Editori”
Ireland: IMRO ” Irish Music Rights Organisation”
New Zealand, Australia: APRA “Australasian Performing Right Association ”
Link to the APRA - New Zealand
Poland: ZAIKS “Związek Autorów i Kompozytorów Scenicznych” (Vereinigung der Bühnenautoren und -komponisten)
Link to the ZAIKS (just in polish)
Spain: SGAE “Sociedad General de Autores y Editores”
Denmark: KODA (copyrights for composers, songwriters and music publishers)
More than 8200 royalty free tracks online!
20. Juni 2009The Proud Music team brought 4000 more royalty free music tracks online this year. The Proud Music Library contains more than 8200 complete tracks for online licensing. A lot of tracks are supported with loops, stingers, intro/outro and endings.
What means “1000 physical units“ in the standard-license?
20. Juni 2009If you like to license music from the Proud Music Library e.g. for a corporate video, which is used for trade fairs or the company’s website and offered to be downloaded, the standard-license will cover this kind of use. Regardless of how often the video is downloaded or replayed. The limitation of 1000 units is just refering to physical units such as DVDs, CDs or memory sticks.
Product videos at e.g. Amazon.com
19. Juni 2009
If you wish to use music from our Proud Music Library for a product video or a presentation video on Amazon or other WEBshops, the appropriate license will be our standard-license. You will get a worldwide royalty free music license with no temporary limitation. If you license tracks marked as completely royalty free music, you do not have to pay any fee to a collecting society.
Using background music on a website
18. Juni 2009If you or your campany wants not to use music from the Proud Music Library for advertising, simply select our standard-license. This license allows you to bring your WEBsite together with our music. For advertising use please get in contact with us: soundtracks@proudmusic.de or call us: +49 (0)6132 43 088 30