About us
This website was created and is maintained by the company Lynne Publishing. We are a music company that publishes music which to varying degrees can be classed as "royalty free" or "rights free". This means that our music can be used in film and other media that is duplicated on DVD without paying anything to ASCAP, BMI, GEMA, MCPS etc. for that. Additionally, we have some music that can also be broadcast and played in public without paying any license fee to any such organization.
We carry out our sales from the web site www.Shockwave-Sound.com which was established in March of 2000, and we have so far processed approximately 80,000 orders through our site. We have approximately 23,000 registered repeat customers from all over the world.
Our catalogue contains, at the time of writing this, approximately 2,500 music tracks across all kinds of music genres and styles (funk, hip-hop, classical, rock, ambient, dance, romantic, folk, country, blues, childrens music, world music and more) and also, approximately 5,000 sound effects.
Our composers are treated well, paid a fair amount of royalties and make a handsome income from sale of their music through our site.
Performance Rights Organizations and their important work
We would like to make clear that the people behind this website fully support the Performance Rights Organizations such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, SOCAN, PRS and the important work that they do for music composers and publishers. Musicians and the music industry is facing an ever increasing challenge in making a living on creating music, and it's important that we remember that music has a value.
Whether you want to use music to create atmosphere in a film you're creating, or you want to entertain or relax patients waiting in your waiting room, there is no doubt that the music you are using has a value to you and your customers. And as such, it's fair to expect the people who created that music is paid something for that. This is what the Performance Rights Organizations works for, and we support their work fully.
So, we are not "against" the Performance Rights Organizations. We appreciate the work that they do. But we also offer composers a different business model, a an alternative way to make a living by having their music used in media projects. As a Production Music user, you buy music from Shockwave-Sound.com for a one-time fee ranging from $10 to $100 depending on the project and scale of distribution. A good chunk of this money goes to the composer. You can then go ahead and use our music in your media productions without paying any license fee or royalties to any performance rights organization.
Music that is "rights free"
Actually, "rights free" is a bad term, a weak or even misleading description. Absolutely all music, without exception, has rights. But some music has more relaxed rights management than other.
Performance rights organizations collect money on behalf of the composer when their music is broadcast or played in public, while Mechanical rights organizations collect money on behalf of the composer when their music is mechanically duplicated on CD, DVD etc.
Therefore:
Music that is composed and published by somebody who is not a member of a performance rights organization can be broadcast and played in public, without requiring a license from any performance rights organization
And music that is composed and published by somebody who is not a member of any mechanical rights organization can be duplicated on CD, DVD and other physical meida, without requiring a license from any mechanical rights organization.