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Re: Free Music for Your Videos

#41

Thanks for the link. If you don’t mind, can you explain how this is different from what NCS (No Copyright Sounds) [0] is offering? [0] https://ncs.io/

NCS has some (very minimal) terms of use that you have to comply with: credit the artist. Creative Commons licensed work has no such requirement.

With the exception of CC0 (which usually isn't actually considered a Creative Commons license, and not the license used on this site), all Creative Commons license require attribution.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

#42
Soundcloud used to be an awesome source for this kind of thing, but their product development has made it harder and harder to find CC tracks by genre.

Recently found and used a track that was free to use, but they would demonetize the track on Youtube. Tricky.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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post #38

No contact info, no terms of service or privacy policy, not even an About page to describe who/what this is. All downloads are hiding behind bit.ly or dropbox links, so there's no clear attribution of where they're coming from. This _feels_ about as scammy as it can get. It's possible that everything is above-board, but I would not feel safe using this content for anything public-facing.

It does not feel scammy to me. I appreciate a website without the stuff nobody reads :)

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NCS has some (very minimal) terms of use that you have to comply with: credit the artist. Creative Commons licensed work has no such requirement.

With the exception of CC0 (which usually isn't actually considered a Creative Commons license, and not the license used on this site), all Creative Commons license require attribution.

Ah yeah you're right.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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post #32

In the upload form I see the following > This way, a track originally released as "free" becomes into a "copyrighted" song by a third company, affecting severely our reputation and making impossible to promote any other of your tracks. How can someone use free music without risking either: a) the music was never free to use, and someone else uploaded the copyrighted music owned by someone else. b) the music is later…

The problem is that Content ID systems are tangential to the law. They are private systems developed to cover tech companies collective asses. It is easier for them to take down all content matched in their content ID system than to verify the validity and legal ownership of every track uploaded to their system. The latter is very hard actually. I guess a solution would be for original creators to be able to upload their content to the content ID system and mark that content with the correct license. Then free to use content could be uploaded and scammers could be punished. I don’t know if this is already a feature they support.

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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post #45

Another good site for royalty-free music is Incomptech, it more than did its duty in my high school TV Production class... https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

yes, Kevin MacLeod who runs that, also has well composed and just good music. also, it isn't a half-shady looking site like the one linked by OP

Re: Free Music for Your Videos

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post #38

No contact info, no terms of service or privacy policy, not even an About page to describe who/what this is. All downloads are hiding behind bit.ly or dropbox links, so there's no clear attribution of where they're coming from. This _feels_ about as scammy as it can get. It's possible that everything is above-board, but I would not feel safe using this content for anything public-facing.

I can see a link to the SoundCloud page of each artist next to the download link. When I click through, all the artists seem to give some sort of permission to use their work freely.
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