The Proud Music Library increases its number of tracks by 40 to 100 on a near daily basis. The current size of the library can be seen by clicking “search” in the navigation bar at the top of the par and then clicking “search” on the menu button. Next, a list of all available tracks in the library is shown, including the numbers of tracks available completely royalty-free and pro-registered. This way, it is possible to get a good idea of which music titles can be licensed completely royalty free.
Category: General Questions
Online Advertising license
We offer in our Proud Music Library a new license for online usage on advertising spots on webpages of the licensee. This license is valid for main pages and product microsites included. It is also allowed to stream worldwide, no territorial restrictions. The permission for up to three language versions is included.
What are the advantages of the Proud Music Library?
A summary of good reasons for using the Proud Music Library are explained on our info page.
The national copyright collecting societies
Here you can find a list of the different copyright collecting societies of our composers and the corresponding links:
Germany: GEMA “Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte” (musical recordings and performances)
Austria: AKM “Autoren, Komponisten, Musikverleger” (lyricists, composers and music publishers)
Switzerland: SUISA (Swiss Association for composers rights)
UK: MCPS-PRS
MCPS “Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society” , PRS “Performing Right Society”
USA: SESAC “Society of European Stage Authors & Composers”, ASCAP “American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers”, BMI ” Broadcast Music Incorporated”
Canada: SOCAN “Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers”
France: SACEM “Société des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs de musique”
Norway: TONO (Copyright collective for authors and composers of musical works)
Italy: SIAE “Società Italiani degli Autori ed Editori”
Ireland: IMRO ” Irish Music Rights Organisation”
New Zealand, Australia: APRA “Australasian Performing Right Association “
Poland: ZAIKS “ZwiÄ�zek Autorów i Kompozytorów Scenicznych” (Vereinigung der Bühnenautoren und -komponisten)
Spain: SGAE “Sociedad General de Autores y Editores”
Denmark: KODA (copyrights for composers, songwriters and music publishers)
What means “1000 physical units” in the standard-license?
If you like to license music from the Proud Music Library e.g. for a corporate video, which is used for trade fairs or the company’s website and offered to be downloaded, the standard-license will cover this kind of use. Regardless of how often the video is downloaded or replayed. The limitation of 1000 units is just refering to physical units such as DVDs, CDs or memory sticks. If you want to offer your product via download, please get in contact us with an e-mail to [email protected] for an individual license.
Using background music on a website
If you or your campany wants not to use music from the Proud Music Library for advertising, simply select our standard-license. This license allows you to bring your WEBsite together with our music. For advertising use please get in contact with us: [email protected] or call us: +49 (0)6132 43 088 30
Using music for your online advertising campaign
If you like to promote your product in an online advertising campaign with great music from our Proud Music Library, please get in touch with us: 0049-(0)6132-4308830 or my mail [email protected]
Will the sounds and tracks delivered in wav quality?
We deliver:
CD-Wav, 44,1 KHz, 16bit, uncompressed
mp3, 320 kbit/s (best possible mp3 quality)
mp3, 128 kbit/s (ready for web use)
Other formats are available on demand.
If desired, we can also deliver on CD. But we then have to charge an additional 5,- Euro for the service within Germany. For deliveries in other countries we charge 10,- Euros for the service.