Music License

Art-of-Sound said

gbiasillo said
you can’t claim copyright to the music as we the authors own that.

He surely can copyright derivative work. For example if he buys a hip hop beat loop, adds some licks, lyrics and melody, he can register the final outcome on his name.

Thanks Art of Sound ....I was hoping that would be an option if I bought the license and added my own words to the music, that I could claim the end production as my own

I think that would be highly contentious if you just took a track and layed vocals and a few sounds on top. I certainly wouldn’t allow this to happen with any of my tracks and would personally dispute such cases. AJ needs to seriously update their license agreements if they are allowing this kind of usage.

gbiasillo said
I think that would be highly contentious if you just took a track and layed vocals and a few sounds on top. I certainly wouldn’t allow this to happen with any of my tracks and would personally dispute such cases. AJ needs to seriously update their license agreements if they are allowing this kind of usage.

I’m completely with Gari on this one, I’m pretty sure you’re NOT allowed to just take someone else’s music, add lyrics and claim it as your own. To my legal knowledge AudioJungle only sells you a ONE TIME USE SYNC LICENSE . This license is very different to the public performance license and the derivative one. Just taking someone else’s music and claiming it as your own is pretty much plagiarism and will no doubt be pursued by the author and by AudioJungle.

If you want to copyright the song you’d need to come to an agreement with the author for joint credit and ownership AND take the song off AudioJungle if the author is exclusive as it would mean the song is available elsewhere for purchase if you intend to re-sell it.

gbiasillo said
I think that would be highly contentious if you just took a track and layed vocals and a few sounds on top. I certainly wouldn’t allow this to happen with any of my tracks and would personally dispute such cases. AJ needs to seriously update their license agreements if they are allowing this kind of usage.

I completely agree. I think staff need to step in and clear this up. This type of usage worries me somewhat. It’s making it sound like the licenses to our items have some kind of Creative Commons attributes to them, which I was under the impression they did not.

soundengine said
Does that mean you can buy an extended license of any track, add your vocals and resell it elsewhere (or even here in audiojungle)?

Elsewhere but RF stock audio sites.

In my opinion, license agreement shouldn’t allow resale of the work in a music track in any case.

It should, just not for $70 – this price is ridiculous.

gbiasillo said
I think that would be highly contentious if you just took a track and layed vocals and a few sounds on top. I certainly wouldn’t allow this to happen with any of my tracks and would personally dispute such cases.

Sorry to break it to you, but you have signed up for it yourself.

I’m inclined to agree with gbiasillo bro on that. I really doubt our ext. license covers such cases.
But as for me… Dunno, guys, may be I wouldn’t be against that, until someone puts my name on such work. So that way I could be famous! )))

upd. and with TortoiseTree too. You guys are typing so quickly!

The license says:

You may reproduce the Work….in a music track…You may incorporate the Work in a work which is created for Resale…there is no restriction on the number of copies of that work that can be reproduced and distributed.

Any questions?
Don’t forget, guys, that you make production music that is destined to be used within another work. As soon as a client has paid you for a license, he has no further obligations to you. He can use his purchase wherever the license permits and he does not require your “okay” for that. You can’t expect a credit either, this is not Creative Commons.

That’s what RF stock audio is about. By signing up for it you take chances that your music may wind up in projects that you don’t like. Take or leave it.

Art-of-Sound said
The license says:

You may reproduce the Work….in a music track…You may incorporate the Work in a work which is created for Resale…there is no restriction on the number of copies of that work that can be reproduced and distributed.

This info is in the generic part of the license terms and is more in reference to artwork. In the music specific section it gives examples of how an extended licensed track can be used:

The Extended License could be used for any of the following:

Single paid-for or subscription-based podcast series.
Single iPhone game that you or your client intends to sell.
Single commercial game, whether online, or for computers, or for consoles etc.
Single film or TV show.
Single commercial radio show or series, including internet radio.
Single piece of computer software or training material, including education material, intended to be distributed or accessed by multiple people.

I’s clear that the track can be used as part of something, and no example says you can use it as your own song. And what is clear a day is that we, the authors, own the copyright as we are only licensing our works.

You can’t take a song, slap some lyrics on it and resell it. Are you serious? Every author still owns and controls the rights to the music. We are selling use of music, not the music and it’s rights. Yes AJ needs much better license agreement clarity and types of licenses. I think everyone knows this by now