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The music on these sites is often released under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license , which means that you can copy and use it for any noncommercial purpose, as long as you include a credit for the musician.
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- Internet Archive -AND- Netlabels section contains thousands of songs in a huge range of genres from artists all over the world, folk music Chinkapin Hunters, Conet Project, 78 RPMs section contains hundreds of songs and musical pieces that were released in the early 1900s on 78-rpm records that have been sampled. Because they are so old, they are out of copyright and you can use them however you want. It's a great source for classic songs.
- The Internet Archive Open Source Audio
- Public Domain Music
A reference site to help identify public domain songs and public domain music . . . royalty free music you can use anywhere and any way you choose . . . performance, sing-along, film, video, advertising, business, or personal. - Podsafe music is legal to use in a podcast. PodShow and Podsafe Audio contain thousands of tracks that can be used, though you should check the license on each track before you use it.
- Creative Commons Audio
- Creative Commons Licensed Album Amazon's 2008's Top MP3 Seller The Creative Commons blog notes that Nine Inch Nail's Ghosts I-IV - which was freely available under a CC license - was the best selling MP3 album on Amazon in 2008.
- Yahoo Creative Commons Search
- Opsound offer high-quality, Creative Commons licensed versions of their music that can be used for noncommercial videos, as long as you give the artists credit and add a plug for the Web site where you can buy the songs.OpSound: Open Sound Resource Pool
- First Sounds is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and organizations who aim to make mankind's earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time.
Learn more about what First Sounds has achieved: - OPEN SOURCE MP3 PLAYER you can build and
- HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN MP3 PLAYER DRM FREE
- Learn to make your own ringtones for free
- Free Ringtones
- WII Loop Machine
- Tapegerm is a Loop Based Recording Artist Collective see the Kid Germ Project
- Happy Birthday and Take Me Out To the Ballgame
- Free Songs from Cory Smith
- Free Songs from Michael David Crawford
- FREE ITUNES FROM THEIR STORE
- Mike Hawley's private little collection of scanned piano music. and more
Royalty Free Legal Music to use in your video's
Creative Commons Legal Code
The copyleft Music group is a group for artists who make copyleft music and B2B organisations that sell music as a service.
- Dance Industries
- incompetech.com
- Soundstorm ® Sound Effects Library Here you can explore and purchase Royalty Free Sounds from Oscar winning Hollywood sound effects designers, Soundstorm, the award winning sound editorial house.
- NINE INCH NAILS give away their songs and hopes that you will remix / use it and share it.
Go to and follow the links to submit your remix. Unofficial Remixes - Taylor Haward copyright free original compositions
- http://www.flyinghands.com/
- Music can be used to enhance your project.
http://www.freeplaymusic.com The music comes in a variety of formats and lengths, and best of all, you can use it free! - As long as its non-profit. - Magnatune If the video project is noncommercial and/or educational, there is no charge for use of the music for one album of choice.
- Royalty Free
- Partners in Rhyme Royalty Free Sound
- Samples and Loops - Free samples, available for download as either MP3's or WAV's.
- Play It Free 100 Sample Sounds
- Wikipedia Sounds - Classical Music
- Circuit Six
- FreePlayMusic
- CCMixter: Songs licensed for remixing
- The Free Sound Project
- Magnatune: Permits use of audio files in podcasts with attribution
- Penmachine Podcast: Free MP3 Instrumental Songs
CLASSICAL
- Free classical music
- Digital Scores: Loeb Music Library
In 1956, the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University was established as the formal music library of the Harvard University Music Department. While the Library has embarked on a number of ambitious public outreach programs, this particular one will be a delight for musicologists as well as for those who just enjoy perusing unique musical scores. The layout of the site is pretty straightforward: as users scroll down the homepage, they can look over manuscripts from C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, and the vocal scores of such operatic triumphs as Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and La forza del destino. Using their page delivery service, visitors can zoom in and out among the pages of each musical manuscript to their heart's desire. - Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 2800 free to download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work. NPR Classical
- Classical Sheet Music, downloads for all instruments and abilities
- Free Sheet Music
Music-Scores.com has professionally prepared classical sheet music and midi files to download. Non-members have free access to 275 files with a daily download ...
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- BBC Radio
- Shoutcast
- Wikipedia:Sound/list
- Musicishere - Free downloads in any audio format and file size you want.
- Etree.org The music community was created in the summer of 1998 for the online trading of live CD-R's. We do not trade CD-R's via regular mail. Instead, we trade by downloading losslessly compressed audio files, extracting these files, and then burning them onto a CD-R.
- lala.com website charges its members a small fee to barter the actual music disks among themselves. Perfectly legal for the same reason that retailers can buy and sell used books and CDs. 'If you are the owner of a particular physical copy of a CD or a book or anything that's copyrighted, you have the right to dispose of that CD or book any way you wish.
- Live Music Archive http://www.archive.org/audio/
- Harmonica LinksSound & MIDI Software For Linux
Schools, particularly those with very small tech budgets, might be interested in learning about Linux possibilities - Primate Sounds
- 4,300 Christian hymns & Gospel Songs
- Soul
- Song Parodies
- Ultimate Sound Archive
You do have to pay a membership fee, but they offer some alternatives to help reduce the cost. It's a nice collection of useful music and sounds. - http://www.free-musicdownloads.net/
- MP3.com - the source for digital music!
- Free MP3 music downloads - Download.com Music
- Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
You can enjoy free music downloads without getting into trouble by downloading the legal mp3 files - Free Music Mp3 Downloads and Soundsets, Band-Promotion.
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- iMusic - Free Music Download, MP3 Music, Music Chat, Music Video
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- Allofmp3 -($.02 per mb) about $.12 a song US
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- Google - find a list of Pink Floyd MP3s. Simply change the details according to your liking (for example replace “pink floyd” with Madonna or just the song name). Change the “wma/mp3? tag to other format such as “ogg” if you wish to download the music in other formats.
Complaint in RIAA v. Napster (PDF file) Summary adjudication ruling by Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in RIAA v. Napster, dated May 5, 2000.
Decision of United States Supreme Court in Sony Corp. v. Universal Studios Inc., from Findlaw
Essay, "Digital Music: Problems and Possibilities," by Professor Terry Fisher of Harvard Law School