I'm Mirjam Swart, working at Beatpick.com, a non stop music licensing organization (over 300 artists and over 5000 tracks) and want to say that in short we offer free music for non commercial projects as we think those are uses that cannot be prevented.
People simply use the artists' music illegally and there's not a thing you can do about it. Therefore we think it is much better to try educating them by asking them to leave their name, email address and a project description. We are being very rigid and ban their email addresses when we suspect misuse of the music or we follow up asking for more info. We also send follow up emails after 15 days and 2 months from the original downloads asking for a feedback (users can embed a video or simply leave a link to a website). All videos with no proper credits are removed. Our artists have access to their personal artist account and they can see if someone left a feedback. The last point is that we also use many tools to track music and check for proper credits.
This is how we deal with non commercial use of music and getting the approval of our artists in doing this (we communicate this in the contract and tell them to make them aware of this issue).
We, at Beatpick.com (we license online music for TV and other commercial purposes), believe that it is impossible to stop the illegal downloading. That is why we, as one of the few ones, made it possible for users to download music for non-commercial projects for free and this is why we license your music under a Creative Commons license. We think it contributes to the artists popularity, networking and rights management. We offer music for free to amateurs, prosumers, students, small non-profit organizations and open source projects, because we know that otherwise they would get it for free anyway. We do not want to get into the discussion whether this is acceptable or not from an ethic or moral point of view. Our main aim is to find business opportunities and exposure for our musicians.
It is important to understand that by asking the details of the downloader (name, email, project description), we are essentially bringing to the light the non-commercial users. We ask them to put the artists credits in their project and we double check the usage of the track(s). We think this is the best way to offer non-commercial users a legal alternative in exchange of their data.
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I'm Mirjam Swart, working at Beatpick.com, a non stop music licensing organization (over 300 artists and over 5000 tracks) and want to say that in short we offer free music for non commercial projects as we think those are uses that cannot be prevented.
People simply use the artists' music illegally and there's not a thing you can do about it. Therefore we think it is much better to try educating them by asking them to leave their name, email address and a project description. We are being very rigid and ban their email addresses when we suspect misuse of the music or we follow up asking for more info. We also send follow up emails after 15 days and 2 months from the original downloads asking for a feedback (users can embed a video or simply leave a link to a website). All videos with no proper credits are removed. Our artists have access to their personal artist account and they can see if someone left a feedback. The last point is that we also use many tools to track music and check for proper credits.
This is how we deal with non commercial use of music and getting the approval of our artists in doing this (we communicate this in the contract and tell them to make them aware of this issue).
copyright, non-commercial projects
We, at Beatpick.com (we license online music for TV and other commercial purposes), believe that it is impossible to stop the illegal downloading. That is why we, as one of the few ones, made it possible for users to download music for non-commercial projects for free and this is why we license your music under a Creative Commons license. We think it contributes to the artists popularity, networking and rights management. We offer music for free to amateurs, prosumers, students, small non-profit organizations and open source projects, because we know that otherwise they would get it for free anyway. We do not want to get into the discussion whether this is acceptable or not from an ethic or moral point of view. Our main aim is to find business opportunities and exposure for our musicians.
It is important to understand that by asking the details of the downloader (name, email, project description), we are essentially bringing to the light the non-commercial users. We ask them to put the artists credits in their project and we double check the usage of the track(s). We think this is the best way to offer non-commercial users a legal alternative in exchange of their data.