Few companies have the time or inclination to wade through the legal side of acquiring copyrighted music, much less the resources to pay for it. The benefits of choosing royalty free music – for the sake of cost, legality and ease – are huge. For example, if you purchased a royalty free music license to use in a video on your website, you’d pay a single price whether your video received 100 views or 10,000 views.

After that, you can use the track as many times as you wish. The good news is that you only pay once for royalty free music. Yes, it’s “free of royalties” but most of the time you’ve still got to pay for it.

“Royalty free music is a specific kind of stock music or production music that is produced for unlimited use in any number of applications and productions,” according to Buzzsprout, which requires “no additional license fees owed to the composer or publisher when it is used”. Before we go any further, let’s just establish exactly what royalty free music is and isn’t.

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