Creative Commons - Legal Music for Free

[Nikki]

From a recent discussion I thought I share this with you. Used that myself when I started DJing and its just great if you cant afford alot of music to put in your videos or DJ Mixes.

 

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.

 

Where can I find CC-licensed music?

 

Several sites offer music published under Creative Commons’ flexible copyright licenses. Here are some:

• ccMixter
• Free Music Archive
• Jamendo
• Magnatune
• Simuze
• BeatPick
• CASH Music
• SectionZ
• Opsound
• Podsafe Audio
• AudioFarm
• Internet Archive’s Netlabels Collection

 

I used Jamendo back in the day. Its a great source for nice music with a lot of different genres. I hope you find this useful.

 

 

 

Source: Creative Commons

[Tidrac]

Only one point. CC doesn't mean that you can use the music everywhere or for what ever. Every artist has different license-types to his music. You have to check the license separately.

Thanks for the sites

 

Regards

[Nikki]

Ah yes forget to include that. But mostly Artists state what you can use it for and what not. But thanks for pointing that out!

[SammyRay]

Thank you, Nikki and Tidrac for sharing very useful information.

 

Cheers. :)

[Tidrac]

No problem

I say this because i have this discussion in webradios more often. Very many people thinks that CC means, that they can use them like they want. But this is wrong.

I think, we should have respect about artists, which are offer their music over CC licenses

 

I only known jamendo till this post