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(License A:) Limited Music License • ( License B:) Standard Music License

( License D:) Compilation Music License • ( License E:) Giveaway Promotions License

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License C: Mass Market License

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This license is for mass market commercial use. It grants all rights included in License A and License B, plus national and world wide radio/TV broadcast, unlimited location music-on-hold and theatrical release license. Manufacturing and or distribution of 3000 or more copies as well as unlimited copies of a product including Jeffrey's music.

Please Contact Jeffrey at musiclicensing@fireheartmusic.com to discuss your project and get a quote for this license.

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What you cannot do with our music, EVEN under the Mass Market License:

  • You may not trade in the music itself:

You may not trade in the music, i.e. to sell it as a music track, include it on a music CD for sale, offer it for sale or licensing through a web site, or other means of trading in the music as a music product.

  • You may not create derived works:

You are not allowed to create derived works of our music. What this means is that if you are a musician, music producer, rapper, singer etc, you cannot buy our music, add your own voice/instruments, and then treat that as your own music. What you are doing then is to create new music that is partially built on our music. This is known as "creating derived works" and it is not allowed.

You are however allowed to use our music as background music and add your voice over the music in products such as healing/meditation tapes, self-help tapes, spoken word, audio-books and similar. Here, even though you have added your voice over the music, you have not created new music based on our music - you haven't created derived musical works - so these uses are fine.

  • You may not give away our music on custom label CD's:

About giving away our music on custom label CD's:

Whether you buy the Limited, Standard or Mass Market License, the license is for one company or person to use the music within their own media, such as web site, film, advertisement, animation, game, etc. It is not a license to simply duplicate our music, repackage and sell or giveaway.

We are sometimes asked whether it is acceptable to license music from us, put that music on a music CD, and sell or give away that CD as a promotional gift. The answer to this is:

* If you are creating a music CD to give away for free as a promotional gift (for example, you want to include a free music CD as a bonus gift to somebody who buys a product from you, or just as a gift to your clients), this use is not covered under our Standard License or Mass Market License. Such use comes under the giveaway promotions license, which is detailed on the giveaway promotions license page.

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Broadcasting and cue-sheets:

Most (not all) of our composers are members of Performance Rights Organizations (PRO's). Whenever their music is broadcast on TV or radio, you are required to fill in a cue-sheet and hand this cue-sheet over to the broadcasting company along with your film/program. This represents no additional cost, neither to you, nor to the broadcaster, but it is very important to our composers. If you want to know more about this, learn more about cue sheets here from ASCAP.

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Note on UK based websites:

As of spring 2008, the PRS (Performance Rights Society) in the UK now collects broadcasting fees from UK companies using music on UK web sites. This means that even if you buy a license from us, you also need to buy an Online License from the PRS in order to use music on your site. This applies to all music composed by any composer who is a member of any performance rights society world wide, which includes most of our composers. The PRS Online license typically costs £50 per year and you can obtain this license by filling in a simple PRS Online License Application form which you can download here.

This only applies to persons or businesses in the United Kingdom using music on UK web sites. Also, even if you are using music on a UK based web site, you may still avoid PRS fees by using music composed by those of our composers who are not members of any performance rights society. (See the completely royalty-free page.)

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Editing/changing the music:

You may edit our music (fade, crop, cut, stretch, loop) etc. to fit your required cue lengths.

You may however not use our music as a basis on which to create new music. (See “You may not create derived works” above).

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Credits:

Except where practically impossible or unfeasible, the composer shall always have a credit for his work.

Credit should read Music by Jeffrey Michael

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Other stipulations:

1. Note that when you license a song, you don't own it. You are licensing it for use. There is a legal difference in the copyright sense. If you purchase a CD, obviously you own the CD - but you don't own the copyright to the songs themselves.

2. The songs you license cannot be the main content of your product. This license is designed to allow you to use Jeffrey's music simply to compliment your existing product or project.

3. This license covers a single user only. It cannot be transferred to another party.

Jeffrey Michael and Fireheart Music own all the legal rights to the music, and the music license you will receive contains a provision indemnifying you of legal liability in that regard. We have licensed our music to hundreds of projects.You can rest assured that buying a license from us will get you in the clear, and we're happy to physically sign a purchased music license so that you have a hard copy as proof.

Questions? Contact Jeffrey at musiclicensing@fireheartmusic.com