I should preface that I already know some things, but I would like certain points to be clearer, such as the type of license linked to a temporary or indefinite use of a composition.
The licenses I would like to adopt are 3:
Exclusive license on complete tracks
Non-exclusive license on patterns/grooves (let's say loops created by me)
Synchronization license
I am preparing my own personal website with previews of both complete pieces and patterns; I have prepared the audio previews and have started setting prices for each type of piece (knowing that it will be almost impossible to sell them given the quantity available on the internet and especially because what I do is almost always perceived as
non-commercial, but I intend to persist, sooner or later someone will wake up), so the problem is not completing the site, which I am trying to make as intuitive and sober as possible (which is important), but properly defining the licenses I will be proposing.
I am no longer registered with SIAE, so this is a problem that no longer exists.
My doubts concern the duration of the licenses; for example, if I sell a complete track and set a price for one year of use (they can use the whole track or part of it), can I do that, or for a specific type of license must I assign the rights for several years (as happens, for example, with the label for which I published a series of tracks, with which I have a contract lasting 10 years?).
Furthermore, I do not want to open a VAT number (partita IVA), but rather manage everything as a composer who makes music and sells it, assigning reproduction rights while retaining authorship rights.
Not a single person has told me that what I do is difficult to sell, and if I were to publish some works just to sell them, so not to include them in a compilation for example, they would value them from 20 to 30 euros because the sounds used are old, without valuing the substance which for me is what counts; sounds can always be modified.
On the contrary, for complete tracks, I would like to propose exclusive licenses starting from a minimum of 100 euros (and even those are few), because I really don't feel like giving away what I do, given that I believe I do it (in most cases) in an alternative way and especially starting from scratch.
Instead, regarding patterns, I would like to sell them as extracts that can be used to create an entire piece; it depends on how they are assembled, obviously, but that would be a problem for those who purchase them; mine remains to make them, and well at that.
Here the price would be lower, let's say from 20 to 50 euros depending on the difficulty and the uniqueness of the sounds used.
There would also be the need to establish whether for a specific license (in this case perhaps synchronization falls specifically into this) one can request a percentage based on the seconds used, so as not to sell a piece once and for all, but to obtain revenue (which I will never see, let it be clear) every time it is used, even in part.
Anyway, in any case, the rights related to authorship would remain mine; what I must and intend to assign is "only" the right of use and distribution.
