Licenses
Licensing music is easy with KLANGIDEE and provides legal certainty. There are two different ways of licensing:
1. USE OF MUSIC IN OWN AND COMMISSIONED PRODUCTIONS OF RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS WITH GEMA FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT (OR A CORRESPONDING FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH A COLLECTING SOCIETY IN THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRY)
Overall contracts exist between the broadcasters and GEMA and GVL, so that you do not incur any license fees. In the case of public broadcasters and the RTL Group broadcasters, music is now reported automatically via an audio fingerprinting system, so that manual music reporting is not necessary. However, please contact the respective broadcasters for information on their specific requirements.
When music is used in online-only productions by ARD and ZDF, there are also no longer any license costs, but the music tracks used should still be reported to the royalties and licensing departments for documentation purposes. When using music in online-only productions of all other broadcasters, please observe the respective specifications made by the broadcasters.
On broadcasters in countries outside Germany that have a framework agreement with their collecting society, the music can also be used free of license fees.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
A GEMA music list contains the following information (if you use the cue sheet function in our download area, it already contains all the necessary information):
1. | Name of the work | Track name |
2. | Composer(s) | Composers name |
3. | Publisher or Label | KLANGIDEE or EDITION KLANGIDEE |
4. | LC number | 15127 KLANGIDEE or 91332 EDITION KLANGIDEE |
5. | Album number | I.e. KI 001 |
6. | Album title | I.e. Below the Surface |
7. | Duration of music use | I.e. 100 seconds or 01 min and 40 sec |
2. MUSIC USAGE IN COMMERCIALS, MOVIES, DVDS, IMAGE FILMS, TRAILERS, GAMES AND OTHER MEDIA AS WELL AS ON WEBSITES, YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, GAMES AND OTHER PLATFORMS
In these cases, please complete a license application downloaded from the linkbelow as accurately as possible. If necessary, we will contact you to clarify any open question. KLANGIDEE will then send you a license offer in the form of an invoice, which simultaneously represents your license agreement. Upon payment of the invoice amount, the license is considered granted. All licenses issued by KLANGIDEE are perpetual.
After licensing by KLANGIDEE, a music statement (see above) for GEMA or the respective collecting society is still necessary. Depending on the type of use, the GEMA tariff applies. We gladly take care of the music statement on your behalf upon your request. You can also find tariff information here: https://www.gema.de/musiknutzer/tarife-formulare/
DOWNLOAD
Download and search engine of our repertoire are managed ba our partner SourceAudio, to whom you will be linked automatically when clicking on a title, album or the search engine.
The download process of our music is uncomplicated and fast. Users can download for free in the formats WAV and mp3 (320kB) – the search engine users can also use without registration.