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Content in a music library is all kind of archived music, sounds and single sound effects.

In the Proud Musc Library the content is also organized and sorted in different genres and moods by tag clouds .

Uncut film material Filmmaterial that is created by a video or a film production is called footage. This material is nevertheless often exploited on its own by producers through by means of footage archives, where unused film sequences can be licensed.

Television stations usually are interested in News and regional material, film productions need images for advertising spots, TV-Spots and also industrial films are interest in using stock footage.

A simple example: A company needs a tiger to run in the jungle, from left to right on the screen, for an advertising spot. There are prerecorded footage takes available for licensing, which already show  a tiger in the jungle.

Great News - the film production thus saves the costs to fly to India, stay for weeks in the jungle in order to finally get to see a tiger :-). Therefore it is often more advised to investigate, whether there is matching material in the footage archives, available for licensing.

The Proud Music library works according to a similar principle. This time it is no cinematic material but audio footage instead. In our online music database you can research a large number of music footage already produced and available for instant music licensing.

A jingle is often described as a short slogan with a memorable melody. Used in broadcast on radio, but also on television commercials. A jingle is great, when the consumers remember it – maybe even their entire life.

This means that a jingle has to be quiete emotional for his aspired aim. E.g.: Jingles for a sports-show should be eventful, motivated and “sappy”. A jingle for a news-show should be splendid, mighty and at times elevated.

Cue Sheets are forms submitted to royalty collecting societies with a detailed list of tracks used by a specific audiovisual production. If you have produced a film that is going to be broadcast, you have to fill out a cue sheet and submit it to the royalty collecting society of your country.

The most important list entries on a cue sheet are: track names, playing time of the track, composer and lyricist of the track. If you happen to know a work registration number or the ISWC (International Standard Work Code) or the ISRC (International Standard Record Code) please put in the field, as this helps to avoid mistakes, e.g. due to similar track names or similar composer names.

The royalty collecting society will then use your cue sheet to attribute royalties to the composer of the individual tracks, as most tv broadcast stations have a blanket license with the Royalty Collecting Society of their country. Therefore it is important, to fill out the cue sheet with the information provided by the music licenser. In our case, you’ll get all the information ready for copy&paste in our license document pdf.
Important: The TV stations pay the royalties anyway, this is no additional bill to you, you don’t gain anything by not submitting a cue sheet, only the composer’s won’t be credited their royalties - this is why we kindly ask you to fill out cue sheets.

The abbreviations PRO, PRS and RCS stand for:

PRO=Performance Royalty Organization
PRS=Performance Royalty Society or Performing Right Society
RCS=Royalty Collecting Society

PRS could also be name of the british Performance Royalty Society PRS itself, which is part of the MCPS-PRS Alliance.