Music License

I have been contacted by would-be buyers about this issue and have always refused.

Envato definitely needs to step up and address this issue to protect the composers here. The license agreement needs to clearly state that our tracks may not be simply modified into a new music track for sale purely as a music track.

Kysongbird78 looking for music for his song. But if he’ll buy it here he’ll couldn’t rerecord or play it with musicants (live). It’s forbidden by Envato rules as I understand. I just try to say that more reasonably is to buy custom music (specially for his musical project) and have no any troubles in the future. May be I’m wrong and don’t understand something?...

pinkzebra said
I have been contacted by would-be buyers about this issue and have always refused. Envato definitely needs to step up and address this issue to protect the composers here. The license agreement needs to clearly state that our tracks may not be simply modified into a new music track for sale purely as a music track.

I’m fairly confident there would be a mass exodus if the licence agreement here turns out to allow that kind of use, we certainly won’t be around if that’s the case. Copyright is meant to ‘protect’ against plagiarism etc of works from my understanding (although I think the copyright model doesn’t work anymore and needs modernising), but it defeats the point if you can modify an existing track with something as simple as laying vocals down. So yes, some clarification is certainly needed.

soundengine said
You can’t adapt someone else’s work without having a written consent priorly.

For your general knowledge, friend, once a song is publicly released and the original copyright holder has exercised their exclusive right of first publishing, ANY and ALL artists can use, manipulate, tribute, cover and re-make that song. PERIOD . You do NOT have to have the original artist/publisher permission to do so before hand. PERIOD . You just have to acquire a mechanical license if your derivative sells more than 2000 or if you plan to use it commercially regardless of selling it or not. Mechanical license can be obtained through the Harry Fox Agency, for example.

Art-of-Sound said

soundengine said
You can’t adapt someone else’s work without having a written consent priorly.

For your general knowledge, friend, once a song is publicly released and the original copyright holder has exercised their exclusive right of first publishing, ANY and ALL artists can use, manipulate, tribute, cover and re-make that song. PERIOD . You do NOT have to have the original artist/publisher permission to do so before hand. PERIOD . You just have to acquire a mechanical license if it sells more than 2000 or if you plan to use it commercially regardless of selling it or not. Mechanical license can be obtained through the Harry Fox Agency, for example.

I don’t have extensive knowledge about this but what you suggest sounds irrational to me. Think about software, if some mobile company uses someone elses copyrighted technology in their product they need to reach an agreement with the copyright owner otherwise they’ll have to remove their product from the market. A copyright is a copyright, it doesn’t change for software, hardware, or music.

You just can’t use someone else’s work without asking them first. If they are a member of a PRO , the PRO may authorize such use on behalf of the artist. But what if i’m not a member of any PRO ? A PRO is an organization that you authorize to collect royalties on behalf of you. If you don’t authorize them, they have nothing to say about your music. Period

This is not a beat site. It is a royalty free audio site. The music is not intended to be used as a backing track for vocals and sold as another piece of music. It is intended to be the backing track for videos, commercials, advertisements, and the like. Besides, what artist wants to be known for taking other people’s work and singing over it. Great! He is now known as a great Karaoke guy. I don’t think the fame you will get from doing something like this is going to be the type of fame you were looking for. You will be hated the World over. That’s not how I would want to be known as an artist.

Now if you need help writing songs….and many famous artists do this…...partly because it is effective and saves time….not necessarily doesn it mean they can’t write or compose well….but if this is something you want to do….in the music biz, you either share rights (like “lyrics by Bucky Lasterd” and Music by “Seymore Butts”) or you purchase the full rights to the song. PERIOD .

guitarjock said
The music is intended to be the backing track for videos, commercials, advertisements, and the like.

Apparently, Audiojungle have a slightly different idea in that regard:

Could very be that SFX and loops are implied by this and not full musical compositions, but as long as it’s not implicitly specified in the license, all audio content is subject to this, correct me if I’m wrong.

Art-of-Sound said

Apparently, Audiojungle have a slightly different idea in that regard:

Could very be that SFX and loops are implied by this and not full musical compositions, but as long as it’s not implicitly specified in the license, all audio content is subject to this, correct me if I’m wrong.

In any way words “reproduce music track” needs clarification. And I don’t think it is what kysongbird78 is looking for

Hi guys, this an old thread that i found, i also think it’s worth searching the forums to clarify this situation as i don’t think it is possible to do what kysongbird is asking.

@Kysongbird78

I hope that after reading this thread, you are not considering going through with buying royalty-free audio and passing it off as yours. Even if the rules don’t specifically seem to spellout that this is wrong, and you feel you are doing the nothing wrong by doing so, have you considered the unforseen consequences of your actions if you go through with it.

Here is a good example of what happens to artists who do this. And these guys actually did “nothing wrong.” But the music World and all of its fans felt differently about it.

Please read this:

Unless this is how you want to be known, I suggest not doing what you are thinking of doing.

Bisides that, imagine how you will be laughed out of the Music Biz if you walk into a record contract with your wonderfully written and sung vocals with royalty-free backing tracks!

Nuff said!