[Let us include commercial rights in our base price!]

On 6/14/2020 at 10:06 AM, gwyneth_galvin said:

I have raised my prices to include commercial rights as many other sellers have done - to avoid confusion and arguments with buyers.

However, buyers can still filter by “commercial rights” which means I have to include it as an extra if I want to show up in those filtered results.

A super easy fix would be the option to tick a “commercial rights” box next to the base price when you’re setting your prices in “edit gig” - this is already an option for “wav file” so why not provide it for commercial rights too? That way those who don’t want to charge extra will still show up in the results 🙂

I know I’m not the only seller who is frustrated with commercial rights so I think this would be a super easy way for there to be an option for everyone.

The fact is that according to the explanation of Fiverr's FAQ, if you do not say or indicate anything about the license and rights in the description, then after selling the music (for composer and producer), the author receives all the rights to this music. And that's the problem. With music, things work differently than with other typical licenses. And I see this problem on all freelance services. 😩

[Music & Commercial Use? Please help]

On 4/9/2018 at 9:57 PM, jaredp219 said:

Hi, I’m a musician selling music on Fiverr.

What I don’t understand is if I choose not to grant commercial usage in my gigs, what does that allow the buyer to do with the music? I want to retain my copyright so I still own and can sell/use the music elsewhere but I also want my music to be used the videos and films of buyers.

If I don’t give commercial rights can they still use my music in their films or not?? What usage have I agreed?

Please help!
Thank you

Has tha same question.

I just read the Fiverr FAQ post about commercial license and that's what they say:

 

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By purchasing a "Commercial Use License" on Fiverr, the seller grants you a perpetual, exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide license to use the purchased delivery for Permitted Commercial Purposes. Unless clearly stated otherwise on the seller's Gig page/description, all intellectual property rights of the purchased delivery are hereby assigned to you.

 

"Permitted Commercial Purposes" means any business related use, such as advertising, promotion, creating web pages, integration into product, software or other business related tools etc., and strictly excludes any illegal, immoral or defamatory purpose.

 

 

It turns out that if you want to retain the rights as an author and, for example, distribute your music, you should make it clear in the description. And according to the description, this license completely transfers the ownership rights to the original music, that is, it takes away the rights to it from you. But here there is another question: are these rights specifically for this file and the essence of its content or for the entire melody and idea? The topic is very delicate and needs a wider consideration. On popular platforms such as AudioJungle or Shutterstock the cost of the license depends on what it is for.

There is a another concept of "sync" licensing. A music synchronization license, or "sync" for short, is a music license granted by the holder of the copyright of a particular composition, allowing the licensee to synchronize ("sync") music with some kind of visual media output (film, television shows, advertisements, video games, accompanying website music, movie trailers, etc.). It makes more sense and this is the type of license that should be used to write music for this type of content. And some of the distributors through whom you release your music provide such services and offers to potential customers, companies, etc.

This is a big problem for me. I approach writing music very delicately and always write it with meaning and give it a special meaning. And therefore, the complete alienation of author rights according to the current simple license on Fiverr should be expensive, as a minimum of $50.