How To Use Royalty Free Music To Keep Your Website And Videos Legal

Royalty free music is one of the safest kinds ofGoogle can get away with crawling your website
music you can use on your website. It's designedand taking all your copyright material. And that's
to be used on websites, in videos and otheronly because you want the traffic they can send
productions with almost no restrictions. The onlyback to your website in return!
other safe option to use would be a track thatFar and away the safest kind of sounds to use
you've written and performed yourself.on your website or on your YouTube videos are
Almost all modern music is copyright. And thiscalled "royalty free" or sometimes "stock" or
copyright is enforced ferociously by the record"buyout" music.
companies corporate lawyers. Which means thatThe author takes a one-off fee in return for you
if you want to use it on your website, you willbeing able to use their work pretty much
have to come to an arrangement with the owneranywhere and any way you see fit. Although
of that copyright in order to use it - not thethere's usually a restriction to stop you selling it
easiest thing to do as you have to track themunaltered - you normally have to modify it in
down and then find out who handles this kind ofsome way. So it's fine to use the track behind
copyright issue. Either that or be prepared for ayour YouTube videos but you wouldn't be allowed
"cease and desist" letter from their lawyer alongto sell a CD with simply the royalty free music on
with a demand for unpaid royalties. The "unpaidit. Which is fair enough, otherwise the author
royalties" figure will be their best guess of whatwould never get any money.
you are likely to owe and you can be certain thatOnce you've bought a track or CD in this manner,
it won't be an underestimate - it will be up to youyou can add it to your website and still be able to
to prove any lower amount, Not the nicest thingsleep at night. You can also use it to add variety
to have happen to you.to your YouTube videos, or in an amateur
It's a common misconception that if something isdramatic production, your own movie, CDs and
available on the internet, it's OK to use it on yourDVDs you produce, and anything else you can
website. People think this about pictures as well asthink of.
music. But that's not true - everything published isThere are all sorts of different tracks available
automatically copyright unless the authorfrom new age through to R'n'B, Hip Hop, jazz,
specifically says otherwise - this happenscountry and any other musical genre you care to
nowadays mainly with open source software andname. So you're bound to be able to get hold of
even then there's usually some kind of agreementsomething that fits the mood you want to
(often called copyleft). Only search engines likerecreate.