This video features the song “Desaprendere (Treatment)” by fourstones, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.If you’re in the content creation business, you’ve probably heard the term ‘copyright-free music.’ But where does that phrase come from, is it correct, and can you download ‘copyright-free’ background music for your content? Read on to find out! Copyright-free music isn’t what you think it is For example, you might include text like this at the end of your video: 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.Īlso, make sure to properly credit the musician and the track, as well as express the CC license the track is under. This means that the musician doesn’t want you to change, transform, or make a derivative work using their music.

Most importantly, you need to use music that is not licensed under a No Derivative Works license.

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).

Internet Archive’s Netlabels CollectionĬan I use any song with a CC license on it?Īlmost - 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.

Several sites offer music published under Creative Commons’ flexible copyright licenses. For more information, visit our Learn More page. For instance, a musician might 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 make remixes. CC offers free copyright licenses that anyone can use to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. What is Creative Commons?Ĭreative Commons is a system that allows you to legally use “some rights reserved” music, movies, images, and other content - all for free. Many musicians choose to release their songs under Creative Commons licenses, which give you the legal right to do things like use their music in your videos.

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