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Optional Sync Rights

An optional way for you to earn more income from your music in non-traditional ways.

Any time your music is accompanied by a visual image, it requires an audio-visual synchronization license. (Known as a “sync license”).

The most popular uses of a sync license are for putting your music into movies, TV, DVDs, or games.

But there are many new business models that would also require a sync license, even if much smaller, such as playing your music behind...

Inside your CD Baby members login area, you'll see a place where you can give us extra permission to generate income for sync licensing of your music to these types of outlets.

How much these companies pay will be different every time, but we will always get you as much as we can. We still only keep our same 9% cut, paying you 91% of whatever income we can generate. This is completely NON-EXCLUSIVE and doesn't prevent you from any other film/tv sync opportunities on your own.

The companies that are doing this kind of music placement need advance clearance from you, in order to make your music available online to these new forms of income. We can not call you for separate permission for every possible use. Instead, any income generated would just come in with your other sales report.

You can give us advance clearance all your original songs, or just selected songs of your choice. (Or none, of course.) If you have too many concerns about this, then don't do it.