In one fell swoop, Deutsch LA’s usage of the song “Down the Road” for Dr. Pepper leapfrogged every other soft drink brand in terms of music licensing

You most likely fall into one of three categories: 1) Full-time composer looking to monetize your back catalog 2) Publisher presenting a collection of music under one brand 3) Semi- professional musician trying to get your music used somewhere…anywhere.

And so it is with great pleasure I announce that here on MusicRevolution.com, we offer a collection of over 100 royalty-free tracks written by Joel Zimmerman (now known as DeadMau5) for licensing in your media projects.

It’s nice to see iTunes and Rhapsody playing nicely with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) in the joint filing of “Settlement 115”, an April 2012 proposal to the US Copyright Royalty board outlining specifics of how musicians should be compensated for new digital innovations such as “content lockers” (i.e. storing your playlists in […]

(Trumbull, CT – September 7, 2011) – MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com), an innovative online marketplace for production music, today announced that its production music library now exceeds 15,000 tracks of royalty-free music. “With over 15,000 tracks of high-quality royalty-free production music online, our community of professional musicians has helped us to create one of the most comprehensive […]

Last week we had a great response to our Customer Track Request for eulogy video music.

Can you recommend any tracks or point me in the right direction? Thank you!”

I first learned of Spotify (www.spotify.com) just about two years ago when I read a July 25, 2009 article in The New York Times by Brad Stone entitled “The Music Streams That Soothe an Industry.” At the time, my co-founder Mike Bielenberg and I were deep into the planning phase about the business model for this site, MusicRevolution.com, an online marketplace for royalty-free production music

It’s generally known that, within certain limitations, copyrighted material can be used without obtaining permission from the rights holder if the usage is educational nature.

So what are those limitations?

A musician uploading tracks to our site recently asked how they can upload additional versions of their track to www.musicrevolution.com. Here’s how that works: