[Paul Anthony]

This happens a lot. There are a ton of applications out there that have a “select music” feature that lead you to a personal music collection. This of course does not provide you any vehichle to license those songs for your particular use. I saw this post and had to respond because my company exists to address this specific issue, simplifying access for anyone online to easy and affordable music licensing ( which is quite the challenge btw!)

I’m the Founder and CEO of a music licensing company called Rumblefish. We’ve been licensing music into ads, films, tv shows and video games for almost 15 years and over the past 4 have been developing tools for music licensing for online and social media uses. Our most popular is Friendly Music that we launched in partnership with YouTube where you can license a song for non-commercial use for an online video for $1.99 per song per video. Here’s a link:

https://www.FriendlyMusic.com

We’re about to launch two pro licenses on Friendly Music for small business that are $25 and $125. Large companies doing major campaigns can’t use those pro licenses, their are more expensive, but most small businesses will qualify and we’ve received a significant amount of demand for cheap commercial licenses like that.

So far things are going pretty well, we have over 4 million videos online using Rumblefish songs as their soundtracks. I’d be curious what those on the list think both about our Friendly Music service and the practice of editing applications lack of outlets or features to music licensing resources.

I’d be happy to answer any licensing questions anyone on this thread has. It can get pretty confusing but the general rule is, if you haven’t contacted the owners of the composition and the master recording (usually two separate groups) and secured a license from both, then you aren almost certainly not “licensed” because you bought or obtained the music in some other fashion.

Paul