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i am currently reading a bit into the matter. what are your experiences or thoughts on selling music to stock/libraries? |
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I have not sold my music to them. A past housemate did. He did not see much money from it. He had hoped it might lead to better promotion/discovery of his work, but that didn't happen. I suppose unless it's really good, it's highly unlikely someone watching a documentary on the TV is going to go to the trouble of tracking down the artist who made the track that played 25.34-26.17 whilst a pelican was chasing a sparrow. That said, it's not like there was any 'harm' to his doing it, short of surrendering some of the rights to it. It depends on your motivation, I suppose; if you want your music heard, even the crappiest TV drama it is used in will allow your music to be heard by far more people than even a very successful indie release. As to what percentage of those hearing it will be IDM fans (or even "actively listening" to the music) is another thing, however. |
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the main motivation for me to consider it at all was simply to see if i can make some monies from it, because id love to buy hardware. i dont care much about promotionial benefits and dont expect any of it, but if i would pass and they would take some stuff of mine onto a library site, i think i would like the fact that it was used in a professional way. so, just recently i was suggested to send stuff to libraries and im more concerned about the harm factor of giving up rights entirely. i couldnt really find out whether its common practice, that you give up your rights completely, so you´d never be able to put out what you sold them. |
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I reckon if you were going to press up limited runs of 100 or whatever, which, no disrespect, is probably the most you're going to do "otherwise" with this music, that'd fall into 'white label' territory and even if technically they retained the rights, nothing would happen if you sold those 100 copies, so long as you didn't draw their attention to it. I have somewhere a stack of about 30 albums of stock soundtrack CDs. They're effectively compilations put out by the label and the deal was (at least with my wife's TV company, who bought them) that buying the CDs bought you the rights to use them in your TV/Radio show, however you wanted, without paying further royalties. I have no idea: How much the CDs cost How much the artists involved got paid (they did get credited, with proper names, rather than artist handles) Whether that model of licencing is normal I know it is more common (although by no means can you assume it to be the case) when licencing your music to indie games that you can talk them into allowing you to retain rights to the soundtrack. IE, so if the game becomes a hit and your music gets a lot of exposure, you can cash in on that. |
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well, any physical option pretty much rules out anyway so far . the only question remaining (granted they accepted my stuff) would be if i was still able to have same tracks for sale (or free download) online. a site i´ve been looking at accepts streaming links only, so they´d know i have them online aswell if i sent them my usual link. i´m also sure i would make a far better deal with the library if they sold any of mine, but it would be kind of a letdown if i had to take down same tracks from bandcamp just for letting them have those lying around unused in their library. pricing for the licences however read quite tempting, so i figure i´ll probably give it a go some time. oh and having tracks in an indie game would be rather sweet =) |
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