All music on my website ‒ except when expicitly stated otherwise by indicating it a crossed out dollar icon in the album view ‒ can be used free of charge even commercially under the following conditions:
You can use music on this site in any non-commercial way you like under the following conditions:
- The upload of the music on this site to stock-audio sites (even for non-commerial reasons) or similar audio collection sites is prohibited
You don’t have to credit the autor, but it would be highly appreciated. If you like to, please leave me a message at contact@sebastianbreitenbach.de how you are using the music, I’m curious!
You and the players of your game are allowed to use music as part of a game in online streaming (e.g. Twitch)
You can use music on this site even commercially, as long as the following conditions are met:
- You use the music as part of a transformative process either in (a) a game, (b) a movie, (c) a radio-play or audio-book. Also the following sub-conditions must be met:
- If music on this site is used in a game, the total yearly revenue of the game which uses the music on this site doesn’t exceed 5.000€
- If music on this site is used in a movie, the budget doesn’t exceed 1.000€. Sales are irrelevant in this case.
- If music on this site is used in a radio-play or audio-book, the total yearly revenue of the radio-play or audio-book which uses the music on this site doesn’t exceed 1.000€.
- As soon as sales for games, radio-plays or audio-books exceed the mentioned thresholds, you have to buy a license for 1% of your sales.
- The upload of the music on this site to stock-audio sites or similar audio collection sites is prohibited
- The selling and generation of revenue of the music on this site without using it as part of a game, a movie, a radio-play, an audio-book is prohibited
- You must credit the autor (Sebastian Breitenbach) and link to this website (www.sebastianbreitenbach.de)
- You must inform the autor via E-Mail at contact@sebastianbreitenbach.de that you intend to use music in this fashion.
You and the players of your game are allowed to use music as part of a game in online streaming (e.g. Twitch)
Please get in contact with me by E-Mail at contact@sebastianbreitenbach.de and we can negotiate a fair licensing fee. Usually I don’t do exclusive licensing, except when I get a commission to do work for a specific project. Please mention your need for exclusive licensing when contacting me if you need this.
You just pay a flat-fee and you can use the song in your project under the following conditions:
- The upload of the music on this site to stock-audio sites or similar audio collection sites is prohibited
- The selling and generation of revenue of the music on this site without using it as part of a game, a movie, a radio-play, an audio-book is prohibited
- You don’t have to credit the autor
You and the players of your game are allowed to use music as part of a game in online streaming (e.g. Twitch)
Why is some music protected ("All rights reserved") and can't be used in games/movies/etc.?
The reason for that is that some tracks were sold exclusively to a specific customer in the past so that I can’t grant the rights to use it to anybody else. This might also happen in the future, though I highly doubt this will be the case for a large number of tracks.
Also, the tracks in the WIP folder are usually protected, as I just want to show the progress of my writing here. If you would like to use a WIP-track just contact me via E-Mail and maybe I can finish the track soon.
Can you do commissioned work for free or for payment?
Keep in mind that composing isn’t my main job, I do this just as a hobby on the weekends. My regular job (scientist) also sometimes makes it impossible to work with tight deadlines.
That being said: If you are ok with this and also if are a serious game developer (aka having commercial released games before) / movie producer we can negotiate a fair reward for commissioned work.
If you’re an indie game oder mod dev, a movie producer, a audioplay producer or something along those lines with limited or no commercial interestes I might compose for free, depending on how much I like your project and the cooperation. It would be great to give me a little paypal donation, but that is completely optional. Please also read the next question.
I want you to write in a very specific style and I like to have a huge say in the creative process.
Usually I don’t take these kinds of work and if I do, these commissions are not for free. It’s ok and even good to have an idea about the style you would like the music to be. The thing is that I don’t enjoy every genre equally. Chances are if you don’t find a particular style/genre in my music catalogue, I don’t enjoy writing this kind of music very much. Some examples of stuff I’m not particulary fond of are: Minimal Techno, EDM, Hybrid and over the top ‘epic’ scores (like Hans Zimmer), Anime-style music and a few others. I do however like Golden Hollywood Scores (like Bernard Herrmann), 80s/90s style Orchestral Work (John Williams, Basil Poledouris, Jerry Goldsmith, etc.) and to a certain extent 8bit stuff, esp. C64/SID stuff. There chances are higher for me to take up a commission if you’re going for these orchestral styles for sure. That being said, I might also consider other styles as long as I love your project. So just hit me up with an E-Mail.
I usually really don’t like to do a lot of revisions when working for free. I might do one or two at max after feedback, but I kind of don’t like to go through a lot of rework when composing after the fact. I’m well aware that this isn’t how it’s done in the industry, then again, I do this for the most part purely as a hobby. If I work on a budget things are a bit different – to which amount depends on the compensation.
Why are you releasing your work for free?
Simply put, I have a day-job I love and I do this just as a passion project. And instead to have all music locked away, I decided that everybody should benefit from this. I imagine it’s also good marketing.