It was launched in 2009.Įvery MP3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Here are some other amazing resources for royalty-free music: Free Music Archive To gain access to the YouTube Audio Library, head on over to the YouTube Audio Library.

Learn more about supplying documentation to claim rights. If you’re prompted to show that you have commercial use rights to the music, just make sure to include the music’s exact title and that you downloaded it from the YouTube Audio Library.

Monetizing your video: You can monetize your video since free music isn’t claimed through Content ID.

Learn more about attribution on the Creative Commons website.

Attributing your video: If you see an attribution-required icon next to a track, make sure to credit the original artist in your video description.

For some more details on that click here: These tracks can also be used in commercial video productions, films, and shorts. The YouTube Audio Library has thousands of songs ( provided as 320 Kbps MP3 files) you can use in your videos, films, shorts, and productions at no charge. Today you have so many choices for free royalty-free music. You pay a one-time flat fee and you are good.

Let me explain, once you purchase the track of music, you can use it in a Vimeo or YouTube video, usually once, and you don’t have to pay anything else regardless on how many times the video is seen, 10 times or 1,000,000 times, it doesn’t matter. It just means you don’t pay any royalty fees. “Royalty-Free” doesn’t mean it’s free music for you to download and do with it as you please.

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