Or if for example, you buy a license for a song to use it in a TV commercial for your new ice cream shop. You would pay a unique price whether the video has 100 visits or 10,000 visits, and it doesn’t matter if you use the music for 1 month or for 2 years. In a nutshell, Royalty-Free music refers to a type of music license that allows the buyer to pay the music license ONLY ONCE and use the music for as long as he wants.įor example, imagine that you buy a royalty-free music license for a video that you are going to upload to your Youtube channel. Royalty-Free license simplifies music licensing by removing the need to negotiate licensing fees with the Performance Rights Organizations (PRO’s) and gives you the right to use copyrighted music without the need to pay royalties for recurring use (that is, for each time the music is “publicly performed” to the listener). Therefore, from now on when we refer to this type of music we will call it Royalty-Free Music and later on we will explain why it is confused with the term “without copyright”. Music without copyright is a confused way to refer to Royalty-Free Music. To his right are all those little icons that we will later explain and to the right there’s an icon with two CC which its square bracket includes all the colors except the red one: Ok, don’t worry because we will show you this same image again several times, explaining all his parts. Note that there are also three colors, the colors of a traffic light. Stare at it for at least 10 seconds differentiating its most important parts: note that on the left there are three different C’s tucked inside circles, one normal, one upside down and one crossed out with a red circle.

Now you will not understand it, but still, take a good look at it because you will understand it perfectly when we finish the article.

Let’s start with an image, the image below. Different licenses on paid Royalty-Free Music.

Different licenses on free Royalty-Free Music.

Free to use music