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EMBEDDING AND ADDING SOUND TO YOUR webpage and your website
It's not about free music. And it's not about piracy. It's about the democratization of access. About the rising power of the audience. Don't pay attention to the mainstream pundits. They're just looking to save their jobs, no different from Universal Music or Sony BMG. They want it the way it's always been. But it's never going to be that way again.
FREE MUSIC DOWNLOADS TO HAVE SOMETHING YOU CAN EMBED IN YOUR PAGE.
- WAVES - Zillions of sources including how to embed sound into your page
- Free Songs from Cory Smith
- Free Songs from Michael David Crawford
- LYRICS FOR EVERY SONG
- FREE ITUNES FROM THEIR STORE
- Mike Hawley's private little collection of scanned piano music. and more
- 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.
- Free Ringtones
UNDERSTANDING THE BIG PICTURE
- MUSIC LAW CREATIVE COMMONS
- MAKING IT IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS
- SECURITY
- DRM FREE SONGS
- FREE DOWNLOADS FROM McGuinn's Folk Den Giving It Away all the BitTorrents that offer legal Free Music
Statement of Roger McGuinn Songwriter and Musician Formerly with The Byrds on: “The Future of Digital Music: Is There an Upside to Downloading?” - COPYRIGHT VS. COPYLEFT
- PUBLIC DOMAIN COPYRIGHT FREE COMPOSITION
- OPEN SOURCE -
- OPEN SOURCE MP3 PLAYER you can build. Get the Open source MAKE MP3 player (daisy) for $115.00 HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN MP3 PLAYER DRM FREE
- Learn to make your own ringtones for free
- WII Loop Machine
Royalty Free and Legal Music to use in your video's
- 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/
- http://www.Sounddogs.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. - Common License
- 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. 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.
- Creative Commons Audio
- Yahoo Creative Commons Search
- Magnatune If the video project is noncommercial and/or educational, there is no charge for use of the music for one album of choice.
- 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
- Tapegerm is a Loop Based Recording Artist Collective see the Kid Germ Project
- 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
- Internet Archive’s Open Source Audio
- 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 ...
RESOURSES
- 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.
- Free mp3 music player downloads, countdown songs charts, freeware ...
- iMusic - Free Music Download, MP3 Music, Music Chat, Music Video ...
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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
