The Music for Video portal seeks to fill a void in music for online media projects by featuring artists who wish to participate in the open sharing of their works under the. We feature Creative Commons music mixes curated with the producer in mind, as well as resources for education about and. If you're new to the Free Music Archive and these concepts, please read our. Just a friendly reminder. We know, the FMA is a great resource for all sorts of people - filmmakers, remix artists, people who wanna hear strange new sounds - but we've been getting a LOT of messages lately from confused people about whether or not they can use X song in Y video. It depends on the license, and how you intend to use the music, my friend! And best of all, you can find out all the information you need on your own. There are tons of resources out there to help. We have a robust FAQ complete with webinar! But here are some basics: 1. You must get further permission from the artist in order to use it for a video. If you want to use it for a commercial purpose, you must get further written permission from the artist, and possibly pay for a license to use the song. If you can't, or don't want to, do this, you must get further written permission from the artist. Noticing a pattern yet? You can use it for whatever you want, even derivative works like videos and remixes. If you don't want to, or can't give attribution in your derivative work such as a video... You have to get further permission from the artist! Now you're getting it! We have pre-screened a lot of stuff and it's tucked neatly in the curator page though this includes NC and SA tracks - so make sure to look for the license you need. You can also use stuff from our collection without attributing or getting permission from the artist. If you need guidance, please consult our or read up on the before asking - you may find the answer right in front of you! Take a film out of context... You could re-cut that cheesy sci-fi flick into an interstellar romantic comedy, or poorly dub alternate dialogue onto an action sequence to make it a slapstick routine. We've put together a list of public domain films; pick one and make an Unreel Trailer! In less than three minutes, tell us a touching story of ghosts in love, a science experiment gone wrong, a training montage for puppies, or whatever seems appropriate or inappropriate to preview a movie that doesn't exist yet. Dramatic voiceovers, superfluous , and imaginary titles are encouraged. Credits, including CC license information, are required, but everything else is up to you! Here are some examples of public domain films to choose from entries must be derived from films in the U. Public Domain : 1. CC BY is full of strange sounds! Free Music Philosophy has done a three-volume Free Music Project release. CC BY has tons of stuff to choose from. CC BY Our and works are all in the! Requirements: Film must be in the public domain in the United States Music must be licensed for use in video without further permission from the artist Submissions must be posted to a video streaming site online and shared with FMA via our submission form Submitters must list all works used in the film audio, visual, etc Use proper citation in the film attribution of music, license, etc -. Submissions that are not in the public domain in the U. We'll accept entries from April 13th until May 8th, 2015. Entry form , finished projects. One winner will be chosen by our , and the winner will get an. The Unreel Trailers Challenge is supported in part by a grant from the. However, after having spent a large amount of time recently using FMA to find CC music for a video project, what I wanted most was additional search and browse capabilities. It's nice to curate mixes of tracks to sync, but most producers are already going to have a specific mood or emotion they're trying to convey with the soundtrack. So what I'd really like to see is a faceted browse by genre, where I can for instance, browse chill-out electronica, and then filter the results to only include those with the appropriate license for video sync. Alternately, a browse by tag plus license filter would also be useful. Love your work here, just trying to be helpful. Thanks for what you do! Does this still apply uner the non-commercial use? However, I second splendidmike's suggestion that the 'music for video' section would work better if you could see all of these tracks in one list. But yes, thanks for providing this amazing resource, I'm reccommending to everyone. I would imagine the music is okay to use on demo-reels right? If anyone could clear that up for me it would be great. I just want to cut a montage of my productions together to a good track and want to make sure I have the rights to do so. My channel isn't that good YET, but im learning to use photoshop and after effects cs6. If you can help me, here's my email kalmusb gmail. Some times I like the intro, but hate the middle, some time i hate the intro but love the middle, and rarely do i make it to the end, only to find out that I hate it. Remember the days of each other and learn to do the right thing. Suggestions as you asked: 1. Put a link to the Music For Video page at the top of the site. Instead of making the process of seeing the license a tedious chore, on an Album Detail Page, expand the damn licensing info instead of hiding it and making me have to click to see it. Why would you do that? In the long lists of music, simply put the CC attribution logo as a column so we can see IMMEDIATELY what the damn licensing is. Why would you obfuscate this so much on your site? Create a logo based menu below the main menu that has the CC logos as buttons - wait for it - then we can simply click on the license we want and get a query for all the music in that license category. Jason reassigned three of my mixes to you. Can you let me edit one of them? There is a CC BY-NC-ND track there that needs to be replaced. It is NOT available for use in Video productions. I use songs from here all the time. This website is the perfect combination of affordability, quality and customer service. I use songs from here all the time. This website is the perfect combination of affordability, quality and customer service. Need music for your YouTube videos, games, movies, trailers, corporate projects, advertisements and other projects? There you will find professional music in different styles genres and moods. If you need free music absolutely free, you do not need to license - you will find it. If you want to license music - you can do it it's very easy. If you need help, just read the FAQ or email me you can find the contacts on the site. Have a good mood!
