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Kevin MacLeod is an American author and music producer. MacLeod is best known for his circulation of royalty-free library music through his site, Incompetech.com. MacLeod has actually made over 2,000 self-composed pieces of music offered for download under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 license.

His licensing alternatives allow anybody to utilize his music free of charge as long as he receives attribution, which has caused his music being utilized in countless YouTube videos and countless movies; since July 2016, MacLeod has more than 2,300 author credits listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

His music has been used in "Hugo", a number of industrial video games, and videos by online content creators such as CollegeHumor, Good Mythical Morning, and many other popular YouTube channels.

Music Distribution

MacLeod decided to release his music under Creative Commons licenses in order to maximize the number of people who can listen to and utilize his music. Inning accordance with him, part of his reason for enabling individuals to utilize his music free of charge is his belief that the present copyright system is broken; he feels powerless to change the entire system on his own, but hopes to create "an alternate body of works that has the ability to take on them".

MacLeod's most popular license is the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY); as long as he receives credit, his music is totally free to use. A no-attribution license is likewise readily available for people who hesitate or unable to offer credit to MacLeod; this license costs $30 for one song, $50 for 2 tunes, and $20 per song for 3 or more tunes.

MacLeod has likewise developed FreePD.com, which gathers new public domain sound recordings by numerous artists. Instead of waiting on old copyrights to expire, he wants to supply a quality library of contemporary taped works by artists who clearly release their music into the public domain.

Some of MacLeod's own music is available on the website too; he discusses that these songs are "not commercially feasible in the traditional sense, and just add mess [on his main site] which impedes individuals in finding the pieces that they may want."

Documentary

MacLeod is the topic of a documentary titled Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod.

It is scheduled to be released in 2017. Ryan Camarda, the movie's director and manufacturer, ran a fundraising project on Kickstarter with a goal of $30,000; by the end of the project, 524 backers had actually pledged a total of $30,608. Inning accordance with the Kickstarter page, the money was needed for transport in order to perform in-person interviews with the different subjects featured in the movie.