Using our Music

All of the music in our free section (available at the links to the right) can be used for just about any project where music is needed. For example, our music has been used for the following:
YouTube & vimeo videos educational projectsmovie trailersmoviesTV productionsbacking tracks for musicians to play along to surround sound ambient Blu-Ray discs (www.bluscenes.com)

We simply ask that you add a link in the text to your video that credits us as:

Music: http://www.purple-planet.com

Please don't forget the http:// part as it creates a clickable link.

If you are a member of the youtube partner programme, it's fine to use our music - but make sure you include the link to us, as youtube will disable videos without it.

In practice, anyone can use the music in the free section for absolutely nothing, for any purpose, including commercial use. However, if you are using our music for a commercial application (e.g. to promote products that you sell), then we simply ask for a small, voluntary donation.

If you would like an alternative mix or version of a track, please contact us with your requirements. If we think it is do-able, we will make the changes and upload the file for approval. The finished track will be uploaded. For this service we ask for a fee of $25, payable in advance via PayPal. The original track on this site will not be changed.

Guidelines for Donations

For commercial use where the project has the potential to generate revenue we ask for a payment of approximately a third of what you'd pay a royalty-free site: i.e. $8 for each use of a theme and $4 for a pad or stinger.

Clicking the Donate button takes you to our PayPal link. Simply enter the amount you wish to pay and log on to your PayPal account to complete the transaction. If you are not a member of PayPal, enter your Credit Card details.

Licensing terms and copyright

All the music on the site is licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. Click here for the overview and here for the full terms (or click "the Legal Code (the full license)" link at the foot of the overview page).

Some commercial users may be required to produce licenses in certain circumstances. If a donation has been made for tracks we will forward specific licences for tracks. Please email us.

For some applications we realise you may not be able to credit us, which would, technically, breach the terms of the licence. This would apply to a radio broadcast or other non-visual presentation. We therefore ask that you link to us in some other way e.g. through a blog or website. If this also is not possible we will provide you with a Non-Attribution Licence, on request. For this service we would ask for a small donation of $5 per project (it doesn’t matter how many pieces you use in the project). If you require a Non-Attribution Licence please contact us.

You are welcome to change a piece’s length or edit it in any way you wish to fit your project. However, the copyright to all our music always remains with us, purple-planet.com, regardless of what type of licence it is used under. We wrote and performed the music; there are no potential copyright issues with anyone else if you use this music. We don't need to know what you have used our music for, but we are interested in your work and will take a look if it’s online. Please send us a link!

You can't say that anyone else owns our music, or the rights to use it, other than us – purple-planet.com. You can't make it available for download or tell others that they can do so. You can't resell it or redistribute it in any form aside from its part in your production.

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