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For the first time ever, as a professional producer in the United States or Canada who uses music in the production of wedding and event videos, photo presentations and other related productions, you are NOW able to purchase the rights to use copyrighted music from the artists you choose at a price you can afford! The ZOOM License Bundle makes it possible.
With the expanding world of digital production in video, photography, and other media, you need to be sure that you and your clients are protected by using music that is licensed by the artists you select. ZOOM allows you to license copyrighted music of your choice easily and efficiently for a single production at fees of just $3.50-$5.50 per song.
Major publishing companies and record labels are already licensing original and popular music through ZOOM License and more songs are being cleared every month. Through ZOOM you will soon have an entire universe of copyrighted music at your fingertips for legal use in your productions.
ZOOM - Music Licensing for Videography & Digital Imaging allows you to:
- Use copyrighted music from major labels legally in your wedding and special event video productions and photo montages.
- EMI Music content already cleared for licensing.
- Other major labels and publishers are clearing music now.
- Create an account and begin licensing music today.
- View songs that have already been cleared for licensing.
- Register and track your uses.
- Request songs to be cleared for licensing.
- Print out a synch license for each song used.
- Receive frequent updates on new songs cleared for licensing.
- Replenish your ZOOM account easily.
- Receive important news updates on ZOOM enhancements.
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We'll drop you an email when we add content plus you'll be able to request songs you want cleared for licensing!
News
January 30, 2009 - ZOOM MUSIC LICENSING PROGRAM FOR VIDEOGRAPHERS GETS SUPPORT FROM UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES
January 28, 2009, San Francisco, CA – INgrooves, the leading digital distribution and marketing company, in association with Wedding & Event Videographers Association International (WEVA), announced today that Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) is making thousands of master recordings and compositions available for the ZOOM videographer music licensing program (www.zoomlicense.com).
Songs from UMe’s vast catalog of chart-topping classics represent many of the most requested wedding and event songs in history. Now cleared for usage through ZOOM are classics such as “I Want You Back” by Jackson 5, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” by Diana Ross and “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” by Marvin Gaye. The ZO OM Music Licensing program also includes songs from EMI Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, Gamble & Huff, Silva Screen, Naxos and K-Tel International.
“We’re excited to join the ZOOM program,” stated Tom Rowland, Senior Vice President, Film & TV Music, UMe. “Through our agreement via INgrooves, wedding and event videographers will now have easy access to licensing our music, and helping people relive their special moments.”
"With thousands of wedding and event videographers waiting for music to be cleared for licensing, UMe’s participation is an exciting addition for ZOOM,” said WEVA International chairman Roy Chapman. “UMe’s colossal catalog represents a major injection of popular music which professional wedding and event videographers and wedding photo montage producers in both the US20and Canada can now instantly license."
ZOOM, developed by INgrooves, WEVA and EMI Music Publishing, is a cost-effective and easy-to-use music licensing solution for the videography and photo montage industries. The web-based service allows video and photo professionals based in the US and Canada to search, license and manage music that has been cleared for use in their productions. The ability to legally license the right to synchronize music to images for smaller video productions is an issue that has dogged the industry for many years.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome UMe to the ZOOM license program” explains Robb McDaniels, President & CEO of INgrooves. “These recent music clearances combined with new features such as our a la carte pricing show that we are customizing our offering to meet the needs of the user base.”
May 16, 2008 - Limited time offer- A La Carte Pricing
We are happy to announce the addition of A La Carte licenses to our bundle packages. We are offering this bundle structure for a limited time to encourage our users to get started right away! This will alleviate the need for you to pre-purchase 100 credits to get started with ZOOM. One credit grants you permission to use one song in one project and create up to 25 copies of that project to give to your client.
April 25, 2008 - ZOOM Gets Huge Boost From New INgrooves/ Universal Music Alliance
Universal Music Group Distribution, the award-winning sales and marketing division of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, has entered into a strategic alliance with INgrooves, a leading provider of digital distribution, and the administrator of ZOOM, the groundbreaking music license platform for wedding videographers and digital imagers.
The new strategic alliance with Universal Music Group (UMG) means INgrooves will now work directly with UMG to clear volumes of master recordings and compositions from the Universal catalog for use in the ZOOM platform, said INgrooves CEO Robb McDaniels.
With UMG’s recording and publishing market shares being the largest in the music industry the new alliance means efforts already underway by ZOOM to clear thousands of songs for use in professional wedding and event videography have been given a huge boost. By this summer, WEVA members who have already registered for ZOOM will begin seeing major amounts of new cleared music joining the ZOOM catalog.
August 30, 2007 - Song License Fees
Songs are now available for licensing through the purchase of a Music License Bundle of credits. You will spend one credit to license one song per production. If you wish to use two songs in a montage production, for example, then you would spend two credits. You may license as many songs per production as you choose simply by using the credits available in your license bundle. Current license fees amount to $3.50-$5.50 per song/per production. Unused credits are refundable according to the terms of the ZOOM Music License Agreement. For more information, please see the ZOOM FAQ.
For WEVA members the discounted rate is:
100 credits for $350 ($3.50 per song per production)
250 credits for $775
New WEVA Affiliate Rates (PMA)
100 credits for $450 ($4.50 per song per production)
250 credits for $875
For Non WEVA members the rate is
100 credits for $550 ($5.50 per song per production)
250 credits for $975
July 30, 2007 - Warner Chappell Signs On WIth ZOOM
Despite tumultuous shake-ups in the music industry this past year, ZOOM, the groundbreaking music license platform for videographers and digital imagers, has made steady progress and last week announced the clearance of major catalogs into the program.
“On the publishing side, in addition to EMI, the world's largest music publishing company, Warner Chappell, the world’s second-largest publisher, has now officially signed on with ZOOM and has already begun clearing songs for ZOOM licensing. EMI and Warner Chappell have nearly a 50% market share in the publishing industry and represent many of the top songs videographers want to use," said Jeff Straw, Director of Licensing for INgrooves, the administrator of the new music licensing program for professional videographers and digital imagers in the USA and Canada.
We are also happy to welcome the Philly International label to the ZOOM License platform. Philly International represents hundreds of songs by the legendary writing duo Gamble & Huff. These masters are being ingested into the ZOOM catalog right now and will be available for license soon.(For full story click here)