How does music licensing work, precisely?
When you license music for commercial purposes you are selling two types of licenses: • Synchronization License: gives you the right to ‘sync’ the Composition with images in your production, as described above. • Master Use License: This is exactly the same rights as the sync license, except it applies to the Master, the sound recording itself – the actual recorded interpretation of the musical composition. Sometimes synchronization licenses (the composition) are owned by the publisher, while the record company owns the master rights. Other times the independent artist owns both synchronization rights and master use rights. It does not make any difference for BeatPick.com as we need the owner of both rights to grant us the temporary and non-exclusive control of both rights. This is because we need to serve our clients quickly and efficiently as we are a one-stop shop for music licensing. When we license the synchronization and master use of your music we ask for a placement fee. That f
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