Chapter 16
The Business of Music for Other Media
In This Chapter
◆ Licensing your songs to television, film, and commercials
◆ Pursuing and negotiating a licensing deal
◆ How stock music libraries work
◆ Writing original music for films and TV
◆ Breaking into the commercial jingle business
As you learned in the previous chapter, the music business can be quite profitable for a successful songwriter. It gets even better if you can license your music for use in TV shows, movie soundtracks, commercials, or video games.
This sort of licensing not only brings in much-needed income, it’s also great promotion for your music. People hear your song on a TV show and want to hear more, which results in increased downloads and CD sales. In fact, many industry ...
Get The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Music Business now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
