Groovy Tunes Music has been set up to provide high quality, royalty free music for a variety of purposes ranging from private use through to corporate and educational. Our library will be expanding at a rapid rate over the course of the coming year and you will be able to purchase anything from a single 30 second loop up to a CD full of 3-4 minute long pieces with just a couple of mouse clicks.

It’s that easy.

However, right now we are dealing mostly with custom orders where “stock material” is not desirable. Corporate jingles for example want a custom piece that is associated with their brand and is unique to them and forms part of their protected corporate image. Click on the GTM Productions logo at the top of the page for an example.

Where can I use this music?

The short answer is, pretty much anywhere and with only some minor conditions that are clearly spelt out in our terms and conditions. By way of a few practical examples, you can use our royalty free music for;

  • On hold
  • Small retail outlets
  • Gymnasiums and spas etc
  • Flash, power point, or any other multimedia presentations
  • Training videos
  • Wedding and special event videos
  • Radio jingles
  • TV commercials

Basically anywhere you need some music, GTM productions can provide it and it will only get easier as our library comes on line.

What is ‘royalty free’ music?

Music like any other intellectual property is protected by international copyright laws from the moment it is conceived in the physical world. Apart from private home use, various fees known as royalties are payable to organisations such as the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) or the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS).

These organisations basically take care of an artist’s protected music from different ends. APRA from the public performance end where the artist’s music might be played in nightclubs, shopping centres, radio, and television etc and APRA ensure that the artist is paid what is due to him/her for that public performance or broadcast of their work. AMCOS on the other hand will collect royalties for an artist when their work is included on a compilation album for example. In essence anything to do with redistribution of an artist’s music. This is an over simplified explanation but you get the idea, and that idea is that royalty protection is serious business.

Let’s say you incorporated a U2 song into your wedding video because they were a band you and your wife/husband grew up with. If you bought the CD the song came from and copied it onto your wedding video (DVD) and you only made one copy and it stayed at your home and was just watched by a few friends and family occasionally, while you have breached copyright by making a copy of the original recording the copyright police probably won’t come knocking on your door with a summons. However, you decide to make 20 copies for friends and relatives who will show it to a few of their friends as well. Now you are getting into the realms of more serious copyright naughtiness. You bought U2’s CD for $30 and have freely redistributed a song from that CD 20 times! So far that has cost the U2 Corporation $600 but on top of that there are royalties that U2 won’t get from all the other friends and relatives who have seen the video and heard the song.

You’re probably saying $600 wouldn’t buy a couple of pairs of underpants for Bono, but what if 10000 people put that same song on their wedding video too around the world? This is why copyright is serious business.

Royalty free music provides an answer to all that by providing good commercial quality music for purposes like the one outlined above. The difference is that once you have bought it you are free to do with it as you will subject to the terms and conditions.

Why does it cost more?

“I can buy individual tracks from the iTunes Store for 99 cents each! Why do the thirty second tracks here cost $10”? They cost that much because the artists has given up his rights to claim any potential royalties from the piece. He has totally surrendered ownership of the music so that you can do with it as you will without any legal complications from organisations such as APRA or AMCOS. You are not free to do as you wish with the iTunes or other online store purchased track as they are still subject to copyright.

If you have any other questions about royalty free music or have a special project that needs some musical attention, then please feel free to contact us. Our friendly staff are always available and happy to help with any advice for your project no matter how small or large.