2009 Rates
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- Keywords: Period, Chase, Children, Exciting, Historical, Chopin, Classical, Piano,
- Genre:
- Tempo: Fast
- Composer: Frederic Chopin
- Track Number: 10 Licence Calculator
- CD Title: SGCD44 - Chopin - Piano Music Request CD
- Publisher: Studio G Print Music Cue Sheet
- CD description: A definitive collection from the master of pianoforte romance and pastoral atmosphere. Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Corporate
Corporate use refers to non-broadcast non-retail audio-visual productions, excluding advertising.
For use in…
- Audio-visual and audio-only productions (excl. advertisements, feature films and trailers)
- Corporate videos (incl. training, promo & educational videos)
- Exhibition to non-paying audiences
- Music on hold *
| Per 30 second unit (or part thereof) | £35 |
|---|---|
Per Production (includes Interactive/looped usage) |
£250 |
| Blanket Deal | Negotiable Rates Available Call 020 8378 7500 |
These rates clear the above usage for:
- All media (including online)
- All territories
- Unlimited copies
Aggregation of cues is now permitted
Interactive/looped usage
Interactive/looped use of music charged at £70 per
30 seconds (or part thereof). The interactive rate allows for
unrestricted use of the same music file (containing a single
music cue) throughout an entire production, and also applies to
the looping of music.
| Premium/Sponsored Products | World per 30 second unit (or part thereof) |
|---|---|
| Up to 10,000 copies | £175 |
| 10,001 - 100,000 copies | £240 |
| Over 100,000 copies | £350 |
Premium/Sponsored Products refers to music in CDs, CD-ROMs and DVDs (or other formats) used as incentives to sell other goods or services, or as a generic marketing promotion to the public to build brand loyalty.
Aggregation of cues refers to adding together all music cues to produce a cumulative total.
Advertising
| Per 30 second unit (or part thereof) | Per Track | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Ad | Advert Plus | Campaign | ||
| All Media | All Media: World | £7,000 | £10,500 | £15,000 |
| Standard Ad | Advert Plus | Campaign | ||
| TV Ads / Sponsored Idents | Single Digital, Cable, Satellite or Region of Terrestrial Channel | £150 | £250 | £500 |
| Single Terrestrial Channel / All Cable and Satellite Television (any single country) | £750 | £1,200 | £2,000 | |
| All forms of television: UK & ROI (or any other one country) | £2,200 | £3,500 | £5,000 | |
| Europe (or any other one continent) | £2,800 | £4,000 | £6,000 | |
| World | £5,500 | £8,250 | £12,000 | |
| Standard Ad | Advert Plus | Campaign | ||
| Radio Ads | Single restricted service licence | £15 | £30 | £50 |
| Single Local Station * | £70 | £100 | £200 | |
| Single National Station | £400 | £600 | £1,200 | |
| Full N etwork incl. N ationals (UK & R OI or any other single country) | £800 | £1,200 | £2,400 | |
| Europe (or any other one continent) | £1,000 | £1,500 | £3,000 | |
| World | £1,500 | £2,500 | £4,000 | |
| * Or Region of a National / ILR / Satellite / DAB / London Station / Capital Radio | Standard Ad | Advert Plus | Campaign | |
| Online & Mobile | Client and Agency Site (Stream): World | £35 | £50 | £100 |
| All Sites (Stream): World | £200 | £400 | £600 | |
| All Sites (Download/Viral Campaign/Stream): World | £500 | £800 | £1,500 | |
| Standard Ad | Advert Plus | Campaign | ||
| Other Ads | Cinema or DVD Advertising: World | £400 | £700 | £1,200 |
| Audio Visual Public Location: World | £200 | £350 | £600 | |
| Audio Only Public Location: World | £80 | £140 | £240 | |
WHERE TV ADVERTISING RATES ARE CHARGED ACCORDING TO REGION, YOUR APPLICATION MUST SPECIFY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
ITV Regions: Anglia, Border, Carlton, LWT, Central, Channel, Grampian, Granada, HTV, Meridian, STV, Tyne Tees, Ulster, West Country, Yorkshire.
Channel 4 Regions: London, South, Midlands, North, Scotland, Ulster.
Channel 5 Regions: North, Scotland, South Central.
All television advertising rates include simultaneous webcasting - but this does not include advertisements placed on websites, which must be licensed separately as set out on the previous page.
ALL RATES IN PERPETUITY EXCEPT FOR USE WITHIN A CAMPAIGN (SEE BELOW DEFINITION).
Defined Terms
Advert Plus - clears a Track for use within a single advertisement allowing unlimited Revisions, cut-downs and tag ending changes.
All Media - clears the relevant unit (per 30 second unit (or part thereof), or per Track), for use within all media including but not limited to TV, radio, online, physical product, theatrical, or public location.
Campaign - clears a Track for use within all related advertisements of a similar or developing theme for a single product, allowing unlimited Production Variations, Revisions, cut-downs and tag ending changes. Restricted to the relevant medium (All Media, TV Ads/Sponsored Idents, Radio Ads, Online & Mobile or Other Ads) and for a term of up to 12 months duration. The rights in each advertisement are cleared in perpetuity. To continue making new advertisements using the same Track after the term has expired will require a new licence.
Production Variation - a change (such as to visuals or duration) made to the content of any one production within an advertising Campaign, for example a Campaign with a continuing or developing narrative or storyline.
Revision - a minor cosmetic change to an advertisement, largely unnoticeable to the viewer.
Track – an entire song including rights in the musical work and sound recording.
Online & Mobile
| Online & Mobile (Non Advertising) |
Per 30 second unit (or part thereof) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Per Site: Background to a Web/WAP site | Personal | £30 |
| Commercial | £110 | |
| All Sites: Streamed Programming or Webcasting | £30 | |
| All Sites: Permanent Download | £100 | |
| Per Podcast | £150 | |
| The per podcast rate allows you to use as much production music as you like in your podcast. You pay just the one rate no matter how much music you use. There is no podcast length restriction. | ||
For advertising uses please see the Advertising Rates.
Background to web/WAP page - A streamed musical background accompaniment to a homepage or any other section in the website. This is charged per domain name.
Streamed programming or Webcasting - Audio-only/audio-visual content specifically made available online in a ‘play only’ format where no permanent copy is retained. E xamples include online TV or radio programmes that are made specifically for the net, corporate videos, interactive web or mobile games that are streamed.
Permanent Download - The use of a production music work in a context in which a permanent copy is retained by the end user by download. E xamples include: interactive web or mobile games, online or TV programmes that are made specifically for the net, ringtones, Podcasts, vodcasts and audio-only/audio-visual content that is downloaded to a computer in a viral marketing email.
Podcast - A downloadable, audio-only programme subject to the following restrictions:
- Podcasts must be provided in the form of programmes in their entirety, and not as individual tracks or separate portions.
- Podcasts must contain both speech and music, with the speech interspersed throughout.
- There must not be any flags or markers inserted which enable the segmenting and disaggregation of tracks.
Please note: All rates apply to digital delivery via internet, intranet and mobile networks. The rates are inclusive of dubbing fees and incorporate the right to reproduce both the underlying musical work and the sound recording. All rates incorporate the right to loop the music.
25% reduction in fees where over twenty x 30 second units are used per individual homepage, or online production.
Retail
| Europe (or and other continent) |
World | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Audio-Visual Production * (Up to 1,000 copies) | £35 | £80 | Per 30 second unit Aggregation permitted |
| Audio-Visual Production * (1,001-10,000 copies) | £55 | £120 | |
| Audio-Visual Production * (Over 10,000 copies) | £75 | £150 | |
| Audio-Only Production * (Up to 1,000 copies) | - | £20 | |
| Audio-Only Production * (1,001-10,000 copies) | - | £45 | |
| Audio-Only Production * (Over 10,000 copies) | - | £65 | |
| All Sites Online: Download | - | £100 | |
| All Sites Online: Streamed Programming | - | £30 | |
| Retail Games (including console & PC platforms): Up to 250,000 copies | - | £300 | Per Track |
| Retail Games (including console & PC platforms): Over 250,000 copies | - | £500 |
Aggregation of cues is permitted with the exception of Retail Games.
Retail productions are non-broadcast audio-only or audio-visual productions, including DVDs or videos for sale or rental to the general public and covermount products.
Rates for music use within gaming machines, such as arcade games and fruit machines, are available upon request.
* Purchase an add-on Online Licence with your Audio-Visual or Audio-Only Production Licence to receive 25% reduction in fees
Interactive/looped use of music is charged at the corresponding
rate plus 100%. The interactive rate allows for unrestricted use of
the same music file (containing a single music cue) throughout
an entire production, and also applies to the looping of music.
NB. R etail G ames rates incorporate the right to loop the music.
Track – an entire song including rights in the musical work and sound recording.
Aggregation of cues refers to adding together all music cues to produce a cumulative total.
Film
| Europe (or any other continent) | World | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| film | Feature Film Buyout (excluding trailers): film budget over £3 million | - | £700 | per 30 sec unit (of part thereof) |
| Feature Film Buyout (excluding trailers): film budget up to £3 million | - | £250 * | ||
| Public Exhibitions (Paying Audience) or Short Films | £35 | £75 | ||
| Festivals Only (up to 100 copies) | £30 | £60 | ||
| Student Films | £5 | £25 | ||
| All Sites Online - Download | - | £100 | ||
| All Sites Online - Streamed Programming | - | £30 | ||
| UK & ROI (or any other single country) |
World (excl. N. America) |
World | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trailers | Feature Film Trailer (All Media) | £1,500 | £2,500 | £3,500 | Per Track |
| Feature Film Trailer on TV & Theatrical | £1,000 | £1,500 | £2,000 | ||
| Per Media (excl. TV & Theatrical) | £250 | £400 | £500 | ||
Use as much production music as you want:
* Capped rate of £5,000 per feature film for budgets up to £3 million
Capped rate per single Trailer - rates available upon request call MCPS Licensing to discuss
All Media – refers to but is not limited to TV, radio, online, physical product, theatrical or public location.
Feature Film Buyout – this rate clears the unit for use in perpetuity within all media, including but not limited to TV, radio, online, physical product, theatrical, or public location, but excluding Feature Film Trailers.
Feature Film Trailers - out of context trailers made up of a montage of clips using production music. All feature film trailer licences include unlimited tag endings and unlimited cut-downs
Track - an entire song including rights in the musical work and sound recording.
IPC Blanket Programme rates
The IPC Blanket Licence is available to all Independent Production Companies (IPCs) and Producers making programmes for primary broadcast in the UK whereby the music is not covered by an existing Broadcaster Blanket Agreement.
Key broadcasters that require clearance include; Channel 4, E 4, More4, Five, Fiver, Five USA and S4C.
| IPC Productions | S4C | UKTV World | TV | DVD | Online | All Media (excluding UKTV) | All Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per 30 second unit (or part thereof) | £21 | £35 | £10 | £25 | £5 | £40 | £75 |
| Per-Programme (unlimited programme length) | £210 | £350 | £100 | £250 | £50 | £400 | £750 |
| New Series Deals | Negotiable Rates Available | ||||||
| New Annual Deals | Negotiable Rates Available | ||||||
The per 30 second cue rate and Per-Programme rate for Channel Five programmes includes the right to use production music on Fiver and Five USA at no additional charge.
All TV programme rates also include +/- 30 days catch-up for Video-on-Demand (VOD).
Per-Programme rates are capped when ten x ‘per 30 second’ cues are used. Aggregation is also applied to the use of the same Track within a production.
All licences are for unlimited transmissions in perpetuity.
You can also download the Music production rate cards as a PDF version here:
Full 2009 Production Music Rate Card Film Music Rate Card Online and Mobile Music Rate Card Retail Music Rate Card Advertising Music Rate Card Corporate Music Rate Card

