Library Music – Audio for the Screens from Libraries of Sound

Abstract

The article introduces the concept of library music. We document different terms and use cases as well as the diversity of genres, pseudonyms and composers. Metadata is of special importance to make this utilitarian music findable and increase its reuse. The section on economics discusses marketing strategies, rights management and experiments.

Keywords

• music
• library
• production music
• stock music
• rights
• graphic design
• musik
• bibliothek
• produktionsmusik
• rechte
• grafikdesign