Sound for Film and Video

The English Regional Broadband Consortium Group (“RBC”) have signed an agreement with the award-winning film and television music and sound company Audio Network Plc. The deal gives all English and Scottish Broadband schools access to Audio Network music for use in their film and multi-media projects.

Under the agreement, Audio Network have made its music available for use by schools through a dedicated on-line server developed by the London Grid For Learning on behalf of all 10 English RBCs. Under the deal negotiated by the RBC group schools will not be charged for the synchronization use of the Audio Network resources but students will be asked to log records of tracks used so that they respect the principle of intellectual property and acknowledge the value of copyright and the creative process.

The agreement is designed to overcome the many problems being experienced by schools undertaking audio-visual projects and to allow schools access to music resources without the fear of copyright infringement.

Audio Network was formed in 2001 as a collective of 100 leading composers to bypass the complex licensing problems being experienced by film and television producers worldwide.

Evelyn Glennie OBE, John Dankworth CBE, Dame Cleo Laine and Chris Norton who participate in Audio Network alongside Oscar winning Hollywood sound designers, are four of Britain’s most active supporters of music in education and they inspired the company to make its content available for use in English schools.

The music from the London Grid For Learning web-site is accessible free of charge to any school attached to the National Schools Network via their Regional Broadband Consortium (RBC).

The Audio Network music tracks and 50,000 Hollywood sound effects can be previewed at the Audio Network web site at www.audiolicense.net where sounds and music tracks can also be purchased for use by filmmakers outside the English & Scottish schools network.

Robert Hurst, Managing Director of Audio Network said “We are delighted to be working with the RBC Group to give the next generation of filmmakers access to the same high quality music resources used by international film and television producers”

The ten Regional Broadband Consortia of Local Education Authorities were established in 1999 to provide quality broadband, content and learning services and to enable communication and content delivery between English schools.

This deal with Audio Network follows on from an earlier agreement with Pathé for the Pathé film archives to be made available for use within schools.

To find out more about the music in schools initiative UK based schools should contact David Mason at the London Grid For Learning at david.mason@lgfl.org.uk

Universities seeking access to the Audio Network music for use by their students in their film projects should contact Audio Network at office@audiolicense.net