The standard royalty free license defines the conditions of use for most photographs downloaded from the website. Under the standard royalty free license a photo may be used for private and professional applications. The image may be used to illustrate a website or print ad. However, the license does not allow the photo to be used...

Essentially, "royalty-free" means you can use the image for any type of project you like for one end use client with very few restrictions. You cannot resell or give away the image or the rights to the image. When purchasing a license from Brownstock, you are buying the non-exclusive rights on behalf of your client or end user, to publish the image. Please refer to our End User Content Agreement for more detailed information.

Charges for royalty free images are usually based on the size of the photo you need rather than specifically what you want it for. You do not have to pay any additional fees based on the intended use. The quality of such pictures is usually limited in comparison to rights managed image material.

Royalty Free Music - also called Buyout Music - is a specific kind of stock or production music, produced for unlimited use in an unspecified number of applications and productions. For more information, please see our What is Royalty Free Music? page.

Sound Ideas' sound effects are sold as royalty free (or buyout) products and their use is governed by the Sound Ideas End User License Agreement. Use of Hanna-Barbera and Turner sound effects products is governed by the Hanna-Barbera & Turner Sound Effects End User License Agreement. When you buy a Sound Ideas, Hanna-Barbera or Turner library, you buy the rights to synchronize the sounds with your productions.

A royalty free image means that the price of the image is the same whatever the time of use and the number of prints. Thus, when you buy an image under a royalty free license, you can use this image without limit of time and without limit of number of uses.

All of the images on our site are Royalty-free. Please follow this link to view our license agreement that outlines permitted and prohibited usage.

All of the royalty free music represented by Sound Ideas (The Mix Libraries, The Mix Signature Collection, etc.) are copyrighted products, owned or licensed for distribution by Sound Ideas. These products and other leased music products can both be called "Stock Music" - which is defined as a variety of pre-recorded music, generally available at a much lower cost than original music or licensed commercial recordings of popular songs.

Yes, within the limitations of the license agreement and providing you register - registration is free of charge. See Terms of the License above.

First, you have to be on the image page of the image you want. Click the buy me button and you will be taken to the page where you decide on your usage needs. Note that we rely on your honesty and integrity in this (but we do check!). Checkout your basket or continue shopping for more images. When you're ready, view your basket and proceed to checkout. There is no delivery charge - once PayPal notifies us of your payment we will email you a jpeg (usually around 1.

Although popularly known as royalty free music, a more accurate description would be "license-paid music". Not only do the tracks cost far less than many other licenses, but the other big advantage is that once you've downloaded the royalty free track(s), your license covers multiple uses. The license is to you (or your company) not the specific project you're working on, so you can use the royalty free track(s) over and over again, on as many projects as you like.

Technically it's a "synchronisation" license to use the royalty free music in timed relation to visual images, ie the license you need to reproduce a piece of music in your audio/visual productions (in the UK, you may have obtained these in the past from the MCPS, in the US from ASCAP or BMI, read our copyright advice page for more information, found via the site map.

The percentage of royalty paid to an inventor varies. The most common percentage is 5%. That is not a hard and fast rule, however. Some royalty rates can be as low as 1-2% or as high as 15-20%. It all depends on the item and the industry. It also depends on the size of the manufacturer. Generally, the larger the manufacturer (with market saturating coverage) the lower the percentage of royalty paid to independent inventors.

First, the source Netscape will be releasing presently may be freely available, but it is still copyright Netscape Communications Corporation. You may only alter copyrighted works with the permission of the copyright holder, and the NPL spells out the conditions under which you may use the source code owned by Netscape.

Simply complete them as usual, telling the broadcaster the royalty free music track titles and composer's names etc. This enables the broadcasters to tell the relevant performance rights societies, so that performance royalties can be distributed as usual. This still costs you, as the producer, nothing! If your production is not a film, TV or radio broadcast, you do not need a cue sheet.

Composers are entitled to a performance fee from radio stations, television stations, theaters outside the U.S. for the right to publicly perform their music as synchronized in a film, television production, advertisement or other medium. Licensees must therefore prepare an accurate cue sheet of all music (including royalty free music) used in the production to assist in the collection of these performance fees by the composer or the composer's designated performing rights society.