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As you’re in the business of charging healthy license fees (which is great!), perhaps you should have just avoided this issue completely by being exclusive.
We are a semi-exclusive library. The composer in question was actually not allowed to place the same music in an RF library. Nevertheless you understand my point.
Besides Jean, your lowest tier fees aren’t much higher than sites like AS or even ML
Not sure who AS or ML is sorry! But not sure if you checked our rates properly. Our rates are per 0:30 unit (or portion therof).
Some of the most successful composers in the higher end of licensing (trailers and commercials) still supply their older (or rejected) tracks to RF companies. Some of them are listed by name, yet I don’t see any problem for them – as long as the tracks are not also in the catalogs of companies that are commanding large license fees.
Yes I guess some successful composers are adding their rejected or old tracks to RF libraries. too bad:(
Sorry fyi Johnny555 is my login name. I am Jean Anfossi from Music For Productions who wrote earlier in this thread:)
Art, I think it’s also OK to work with non-exclusive or semi-exclusive production companies. My problem with working with RF libraries is that in my opinion the professional composer is undervaluing his own music. So what do you think the end-users will think of the composer’s music if it’s licensed through a RF company? He will think it’s cheap music. This could be a problem if he also want to include his music in a Production music library. For example I worked with an excellent composer and my clients were paying top dollars for his music until one of my client came back to me and said that he heard some of the same tracks he licensed from me in a RF library. Not only I lost the client but through the eyes of this client I was overcharging him. How can I justified charging $1000-$1500 for an internet license to him when the same track was available for $30 in a royalty library? Since then the problem has been resolved with the composer but I definitely didn’t want to be in this position any more. You see the problem? Since then I fixed the problem with the composer but this is the reason I don’t work with RF composers:)