{"id":2704,"date":"2007-12-02T20:18:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/2007\/12\/easy-music-licensing\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T20:18:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T04:18:13","slug":"easy-music-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2007\/12\/easy-music-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Music Licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t do much video work now, but when I did, music was always an unfortunate issue. The boundaries were unclear when it came to educational\/non-profit work, &#8220;free&#8221; music <a href=\"http:\/\/freeplaymusic.com\/licensing\/termsofuse.php\">wasn&#8217;t really free<\/a>, and even when one was willing to spend the money for a license, the process was prohibitively confusing.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three years ago, in a post titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/hotw\/iblog\/C1178808469\/E2114049063\/\">iTunes Pro<\/a>,  I suggested that someone make it easy to license music for production use. This hasn&#8217;t happened yet. But, I was happy to hear on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelcorps.tv\/twim74\">recent episode<\/a> of This Week in Media that at least one artist, Moby, has stepped up and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygratis.com\/\">explicitly allowed a portion of his catalog to be used for free by independent non-profit filmmakers<\/a>. And for those who want the music for commercial use? Moby offers an &#8220;easy license,&#8221; with all revenue going to the Humane Society. I&#8217;m not sure about the details of this license (site requires registration), but anything &#8220;easy&#8221; is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I also wish there was an easy way for small-time producers (meaning anyone with at least one original piece of content, whether it&#8217;s a video, song, book, or thingamajig) to sell downloads. I&#8217;ve heard of a few services that come close, but nobody does it quite right yet.<\/p>\n<p>After these problems are sorted out, all we need are online haircuts. Then I&#8217;ll be satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t do much video work now, but when I did, music was always an unfortunate issue. The boundaries were unclear when it came to educational\/non-profit work, &#8220;free&#8221; music wasn&#8217;t really free, and even when one was willing to spend the money for a license, the process was prohibitively confusing. Nearly three years ago, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2007\/12\/easy-music-licensing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easy Music Licensing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}