Licensing Library

With Midas Touch Music Licensing obtaining a license to sync music in your production ensures you are not at risk of violating music copyright laws.

Licensing Library

Licenses Offered

Midas Touch Music Licensing assists music supervisors find music and music find music supervisors. We work with producers, directors, ad agency and marketing creatives, public relations firms, post-production supervisors, sound designers, recording and mixing engineers as well as, soundtrack labels providing solid gold service and great affordable music to license

With Midas Touch Music Licensing obtaining a license to sync music in your production ensures you are not at risk of violating music copyright laws. We own or control all of the music rights to everything available on our website, you’re fully indemnified, eliminating any legal clearance concerns.

Our production music library Midas Touch Tunes incorporates a search engine with fully automated licensing capabilities. It can execute all of the contracts and supply an CSV version of a cue sheet with all of the songwriter and publisher information filled in.

MUSIC LICENSE CATEGORIES AND TYPES

This list provides a general introduction and overview of the many music license types which are commonly used in every-day licensing inquiries, negotiations and sales transactions.

Sync and Master Licenses

Use of master in synchronization with visual for film, games, video, etc.
License Types:

• Corporate, Theater and Competition (unless no visual media is used)
• Film Sync License
• Games and Software
• Internet Website, Flash
• Products and Toys
• Single Units (Wedding video, small quantity for profit)
• Slide Show or PowerPoint
• Software – Multimedia, All platforms, any use
• TV Advertising
• TV Show Sync License
• Video (Music for Video, DVD or CDROM)

Print Rights Licensing

Generally sheet music, song folios, scores or notation in any printed or digital form released for sale. Once sold, printed music earns royalties from the print rights license which the publisher negotiated.
Midas Touch Music Licensing offers the sale of digital Sheet Music including scores or notation in PDF and/or Midi (.mid) file formats.
License Types:
• Scores or notation
• Sheet music
• Song folios

Phonic Ringtones

Ringtones using standard MIDI sound files.
There are two basic types of ringtones: Phonic Ringtones and Pre-Recorded Ringtones.

1. Phonic Ringtones are (most common) standard MIDI sound files that are either monophonic, where the ringtones are recreated using standard single notes, or polyphonic where notes can be played simultaneously creating harmony and/or counterpoint.

2. Pre-Recorded ringtones play actual clips from sound recordings. It should be noted that the term ‘Pre-Recorded ringtone’ is not the standard (industry wide) term. They are also known as Trutones, Songtones, Master Ringtones, etc.

Master Use Sound Recording

License master audio recording with no use of visual synchronization. License Types:

• Audio Projects
• Composition and Sound Recordings
• Master Ringtone (Pre-Recorded music which play actual clips from sound recordings.)
• Music Compilation (CD, DVD, PC Audio)
• Public Space (Restaurants, Trade shows, Retail spaces)
• Radio Ad or Production
• Sampling, Remixes, Covers and Derivative Works
• Telephone or Music On Hold

Composition Licenses

No sync or master, only license to record and sell the song’s composition. License Types:
• Mechanical Royalty License (Up to 5 Minutes, $0.091 per song)
• Mechanical Royalty License (Over 5 Minutes, $0.0175 per minute)

Basic Mechanical Royalty application: A mechanical right is the right to record and distribute (without visual images) a song on a phonorecord (e.g. CD) for private use. Mechanical rights or a mechanical license must be obtained in order to lawfully make and distribute records, CD’s and tapes.

Mixed Usage, Special Licenses

• Custom License – publisher/buyer negotiated according to exact usage, for example, blanket, per-program,
exclusive or foreign rights deals, etc.

• Stock Music License – some restrictions normally apply and vary according to publisher

Performance Rights

Application and Usage: The public performance rights most commonly collected via the Performance Rights Organizations such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN, PRS and other PROs around the world. Their fundamental job is to keep track of performances and broadcasts of all works protected under copyright. Common uses include TV and Radio broadcasting and a variety of public venue performances.

Personal Use Licenses

Non-commercial usage, may be sold as retail product, offered for promotion or evaluation for commercial licensing purposes.
License Types:

• Free Demo – for promo or commercial project evaluation only.
• Personal Use – typical retail sales application. May not be used for any commercial projects OR purpose requiring
other kinds of licenses.

Cue Sheet Resource

Midas Touch Music Licensing offers a CSV template resource which lets composers and publishers set up a Cue Sheet form to collect production music usage details from their clients.