Frequently Asked Questions

These are brief explanations of the frequently asked questions. Feel free to contact Martinworks if you prefer more detail or your questions are not answered here.

Q: What is a Royalty Free Buyout License?

A: It is an alterative to the regular “payment per use” license. This license allows the purchaser or Company to use the composition as many times, in as many projects as you want for 99 years. There are no extra payments per cycle for a commercial, no renewal fees and no charges for multiple uses. It covers all three rights Mechanical, Synchronization and Public Performance to use in all media including (but not limited to) audio, video, industrial films and slide presentations, multimedia, television, radio and satellite broadcasting.

Q: Do I get a License agreement document with my purchase?

A: When you commit to buying a composition an account for your activity (client log-in) needs to be created where a license agreement can be downloaded for each purchase. A password will be provided to view the history of all your activity.
You can also preview the licenses by clicking here.
A password will be provided (in order to view your total activity history)

Q: Are there extra duties as a Licensee I need to know about?

A: Yes.
i) If the project you are working on is deemed to be broadcast, then a cue sheet for the project must be submitted to the broadcaster with the proper credits from the License Agreement (title,writer,time,publisher,performing rights society) so that the writer gets paid a small amount by the broadcaster, through their performing rights society, for each time the project is aired. The preferred cue sheet can be downloaded from www.socan.ca (SOCAN,Canadian Performing Rights Society) where the broadcast royalties from around the world get distributed to the writers.

i) If the composition is to be in a manufactured product (ie. CDROM, Video for sale or promotion) it covers the license for the first 10,000 copies.

Q: What are the benefits of buying the Library disks?

A: The same privileges and buyout license as the single song download agreement for a fraction of the price (the price of 4 downloads). Many Producers, Music Supervisors and Editors still prefer having discs when their email and editing gear are in different rooms, multiple users in a larger company or researching when in transit (car/train etc). We currently do not supply the Library Disks online, please contact us directly for further information.

Q: I’m a Canadian composer. How do I join the Martinworks Library?

A: Contact me through the website , stating your interest in joining. I will then ask you to send a disc or DAT of no more than ten songs at a time (from 30 seconds to 5 minutes in length) and the paperwork involved. I will be paying attention to broadcast quality, originality and category possibilities. I would prefer that you submit compositions that you are not "shopping yourself".

Q: I’m a manager of an artist who would like to re-record a song from the Vocal Library. How do I acquire the rights to re-record the song?

A: A special permission form will be needed from both the writer and publisher for you to re-record one of these compositions. This is necessary to track another version of the same song when it goes through retail and possibly to radio. Contact us for further details.