Its where you create and write your own song and you publish it. Done that you own the song.
Recording Rights
How would you go about clearing a piece of music for use in films?
You can pay a sum of money to the owner of a song which is a 'buyout' therefore you don't have to pay royalties right every time you use that song in your sequence of film.
Can you use music in your film if the owner is dead?
No you can't unless you have paid for the rights and so on. But what you can do is use music from the owner who has died seventy years ago or more.
Incidental Music
Incidental music is also called score or soundtrack. This is what plays on the background of a scene which pretty much fills up the space and creates an emotion between the characters.
Incidental music is something the characters can't hear as its added after the scene of film is shot. This is only used to create meaning to the audience.
Creative Commons
Attribution CC BY:
As long as they credit you for the original piece you are allowed to play around with the sound and do whatever you want with it.
Attribution ShareAlike CC BY-SA:This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND:Anyone can use this as long as you get credit for this.
Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC:
Anyone can use this and play around with it but it is used for non commercial stuff, therefore if you wrote a song it can't be used in a film or anything where someone else gets money out of it.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA:Anyone can use this and play around with it but it can't be used commercially either unless you get credit for it and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND:This is the most restrictive one out of the six and people can download your stuff and share it with people yet they can't charge you for using it.
Even if the composer is dead you cannot whatsoever use their piece as you still have to pay rights for publishing and whoever performed it.
Incidental Music:
Incidental music is the kind of music tat is created for a film or a play and it is played on the background of a situation to create or enhance an specific atmosphere.
It is often use in tv series, films and even video games. The term used for this is often called a 'soundtrack' or 'score'
