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Pond5 Adds RF Music and Sound FX
New York-based Pond5.com is the worlds first open marketplace for stock video footage, and it claims to be a better way for video professionals to buy or sell stock footage for use in productions. Video, film and television producers anywhere in the world can find and buy instantly downloadable, broadcast quality royalty-free footage for use in their productions. Video/film creators and content owners around the world can offer their owned work for licencing and use by others.
Pond5 have now added royalty-free music and sound effects to their site. They launched with over 15,000 sound effects and 3,000 production music tracks, enhancing Pond5s collection of over 250,000 footage clips. The company pays higher than usual artist royalties of 50% and allows producers to set their own prices for footage on SD and HD.