Epidemic Sound is a platform for restriction-free music. Its digital rights model allows for content creators to use “restriction-free music” to boost their content, while simultaneously supporting the musicians it works with both financially and creatively.
Victor Englesson, Partner and Investment Advisor at EQT Partners, says, “Epidemic Sound taps into numerous thematic macro trends, such as the democratisation of how user-generated content is produced and consumed digitally, largely driven by the increased prevalence of video communication in our society and the growing online creator economy.”
The company has offices in six major cities across the globe including Stockholm, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Hamburg.
Royalty-free music means that you pay once for a license to use a piece of music, not repeatedly on a per-use basis.
Epidemic Sound provides music that is not only royalty-free but also free from public performance costs. Instead, the company pays its music creators a fee for the track and splits all streaming revenue 50/50 with the music creators. By doing this, it makes itself the owners of all financial rights to the music, as well as provides its customers with a direct license covering all rights, including public performance.
In other words, “as long as you have an active subscription when you upload content with our music on the channels and accounts connected to your subscription, you won’t face any further costs, copyright strikes, or other legal negotiations,” says the company on its website.
