Film Score Composer Agreement (Creative Fee Basis)

Hire a composer to write and arrange a musical score for a motion picture under the terms of this Film Score Composer Agreement.

• The work will be deemed a work for hire. The composer will write, arrange, record, conduct, prepare and produce the film score as an employee-for-hire.
• The score, recordings, copyrights and intellectual property rights will be the property of the producer.
• The composer will receive 100% of the writer's share of performance royalties for the musical score.
• The template includes a schedule which explains the method of calculating gross receipts ⁄ royalties payable to the composer in the event of a recording contract for the score.
• You can customize the Film Score Composer Agreement and use it on subsequent film projects. Once you download it, you own it.

License a master for use in a television broadcast or video with this Master Recording License.

• The composer of the music grants the producer of a television program a license to use the master recording in one or more episodes of the TV program, and in videos or other reproductions of the program.
• The license is a nonexclusive worldwide license to distribute a certain number of video and DVD recordings of the program.
• The producer can extend its distribution license to an unlimited number of copies by payment of additional license fees to the composer.
• The license does not extend to soundtrack albums or other recordings.

The Master Recording License for TV Broadcast or Video is a downloadable digital template which will be a valuable addition to your music contracts library.

Hire a composer to write and arrange music for a TV show with this Television Music Composer Agreement.

• The composer will write, arrange, record, conduct and otherwise prepare and produce music for the TV program (titles, cues, themes, etc).
• The composer's services are rendered on a work-for-hire basis.
• The music, master recordings, copyrights and intellectual property rights are the sole property of the producer.
• The composer is paid a fixed contract fee and receives a screen credit.
• The producer may suspend the agreement in the event of force majeure delays or circumstances outside its control, or in the event the composer is unable to render his/her services for a period of time.
• The composer consents to use of his/her name and likeness for the purposes of promoting the television show.
• The Television Music Composer Agreement template can be used for TV productions in the United States and Canada.

In order to publish music throughout the world, a music publisher requires the composer or songwriter to assign the copyright for the musical composition over to the publisher. This Assignment of Copyright form is for copyrights registered in the United States.

• All of the writer's rights in the work are assigned to the publisher, together with all copyright and renewals.
• The form contains a statement that the composition is a work made for hire under the U.S. Copyright Act.
• The songwriter will continue to receive any performance royalties that he/she is entitled to receive.

Download the USA Assignment of Copyright in Musical Composition and use it as often as your business requires. Once you buy it, it's yours.