@BenLeong !!! Hi. I have a question. Does the elements provide an extended license? The downloaded items from the elements are available on television.
Thanks!
Yes, kind of:
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Broadcast license is excluded from Elements.
Even if Envato did work out some sort of deal with a customer, then it should be reflected somehow in your earnings. If not, you’re getting abused in a scandalous, and I’m hoping unlikely way.
Many customers simply ignore the terms of the license. Broadcasting unlicensed material is a very serious offense. You are entitled to compensation.
Personally, every time I found out about such occurrences, I contacted the offender and ended up getting paid.
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Not anymore, I think…
Broadcasting rights, covered
Broadcast with confidence. Our Enterprise subscription gives you all the rights you need to share your content freely.
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Alright, my bad.
And what is the authors earnings for broadcast uses then? Is this information available anywhere to the author? If not, I don’t understand how you guys can agree with that.
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As usual, it’s quite shady and undisclosed. From time to time u notice a particular track generated a bit more than usual but (anyone correct me if I’m wrong) we have no tools to know were that came from or how it’s calculated…
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Yes, I agree. We don’t know the exact calculation method on this issue. My television license price for the market is between $400-700 gross. I don’t know the elements.
If possible, I’d try to contact the agency or network (unfortunately they don’t share this info with us either, but you can try to google it) and make sure they have your PRO, IPI and the track’s ISRC so you can collect your corresponding broadcast royalties.
It’s a pity we as authors can’t have access to that info, as we had in the markets.
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@ozgurmmp Regular Elements subscriptions (standard/teams/education/etc) don’t cover the customer for broadcast usage.
On Elements, that’s only accessible via specific Enterprise plans - those are all customised to each Enterprise customer, with different variations of multiple seats, indemnity insurance and other licensing types available. Enterprise subscriptions cost significantly more than any other type, so item usage from those customers will be a much larger contribution to monthly earnings for those items.
If the customer has a regular subscription and is using this music in a one-off project, generally they will need to go to AudioJungle to buy an Extended licence to cover themselves for that end product.
Got it. The question is, was this item downloaded by an Enterprise subscriber? If it was downloaded by a regular subscriber, I will initiate legal proceedings. Please support me on this matter. Thanks!
However:
- Author share from Enterprise plan is only 20% [edit: it’s actually 25%]
- In reality one item use generates cents (or even less), so even if Enterprise use generates earnings which are few times bigger, we still talk about a few cents. Of course it may vary if e.g. client downloads only one or few items during the month but I guess it’s not common for the Enterprise clients
- this makes it little harder to track the legality of TV use
- besides that, IMHO it’s very good that broadcast use is allowed in the Enterprise Elements because such a use generates PRO royalties which are way bigger than sync fee on such a stock such as Envato
- Let me say this once again: Envato should allow the broadcast use in regular Elements, this would generate a HUGE royalties for us and increase the music reputation on Envato. Of course if it’s not too late, because competitors present a very high level these days and they simply took away almost all of our professional clients.
- allowing broadcast use should go together with an addition of our PRO data in license and description
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Either they keep the broadcast use to Enterprise plans only, or allow it in the standard plan, it’s a must that they include our IPIs and ISRC codes. The amount of customers that will do all the research it takes right now just to correctly fill a cue sheet is very close to 0.
So +1 to include that info in the track’s details.
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lol. This is beyond exploitation! Good for Envato to have tried to get away with this preposterous deal. Looks like they did!
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No one asked us 
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*ISWC is more useful for PROs
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I double checked it and it is 25% to be precise. I edited my post.
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My local PRO (formed actually by 2 related institutions) provide me only with an ISRC. Does, for example, BMI give you an ISWC when registering your tracks with them?
Thx!
Yep. ISWC are for composition numbers. PROs need them because they collect composition royalties. ISWC is on cue sheets often.
ISRC is for recordings. Recordings generate much smaller royalties, mainly as neighbouring rights.
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Thx, man! 