Kevin MacLeod

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Kevin MacLeod (born September 28, 1972 in Green Bay , Wisconsin ) is an American composer and music producer who achieved international fame through the publication of freely licensed production music on his website incompetech.com .

Career

Since 1996, MacLeod has published over 2,000 tracks under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY 3.0) license , which, if the name is given, enables any free reuse - even in commercial productions. His music has reportedly been used in millions of YouTube videos, thousands of films, and multiple video games .

MacLeod also initiated the freepd.com website for public domain music (CC0). There new music with the same license is listed and offered for download.

Kevin MacLeod officially launched a new platform for the distribution of his music together with Sascha at the end of March 2019.

reception

In 2015 MacLeod was awarded the "International Honorary Prize" of the German Web Video Prize. A documentary entitled Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod is slated for release in 2018.

Web links

Commons : Kevin MacLeod  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hoffberger, Chase: Royalty Free: Why YouTube and Creative Commons can't coexist . The Daily Dot. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  2. ^ Pollari, Niina: Free Music - Kevin MacLeod Composes for the Internet . Kickstarter. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ freepd - Participants freepd.com. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ Royalty free music by Kevin MacLeod. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Web video award winner - international honorary award: Kevin MacLeod , broadmark.de, accessed on May 6, 2016.
  6. ^ Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod (2018). Internet Movie Database (IMDb), accessed February 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME MacLeod, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Green Bay , Wisconsin , USA