Free Music for Students & Teachers | Many musicians choose to release their songs under Creative Commons licenses, which give you the legal right to do things like use their music inyour videos.
What is Creative Commons? Creative
Commons is a new system, built upon current copyright law, that allows
you to legally use “some rights reserved” music, movies, images, and
other content — all for free. CC offers free copyright licenses that
anyone can use (without a lawyer) to mark their creative work with the
freedoms they want it to carry. For instance, a musician would use a
Creative Commons license to allow people to legally share her songs
online, make copies for friends, or even use them in videos or other
compositions. For more information, visit CC'sLearn More page.
Where can I find CC-licensed music? Several sites offer music published under Creative Commons’ flexible copyright licenses. Here are some:
Can I use any song with a CC license on it? Almost
— you need to make sure that what you want to do with the music is OK
under the terms of the particular Creative Commons license it’s under.
CC-licensed music isn’t free for all uses, only some — so make sure to
check out the terms (you can find these by clicking on each song’s
license icon).
Most importantly, you need to use music that is
not licensed under a No Derivative Works license. This means that the
musician doesn’t want you to change, transform, or make a derivative
work using their music. Under CC licenses, synching the music to images
amounts to transforming the music, so you can’t legally use a song
under a CC No Derivative Works license in your video.
Also, make
sure to properly credit the musician and the track, as well as express
the CC license the track is under. For example, you might include text
like this at the end of your video:
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