The official way to use copyrighted music on YouTube is through YouTube Studio > Audio library. The audio library includes free music and sound effects, some of which don't even require attribution.

YouTube currently offers more than 150,000 audio tracks on its site that video producers can use as background music for their videos. Those tracks, however, can’t ...

The key to Open Source and Royalty-Free and Public Domain media is collaboration, and the furtherance of humankind by using what our predecessors have made and building up and outward. YouTube has ...

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The Library of Congress has launched a new website that allows you to create short remixes of royalty-free audio clips. Citizen DJ is an open-source hip-hop project created by New York-based artist ...

Whether you’re just getting started as a YouTube creator or you’re already a seasoned pro, finding the perfect audio track to accompany your video can sometimes take longer than actually shooting the ...

Google today launched a new feature in the YouTube Audio Library that allows uploaders who use copyrighted music to see exactly what will happen to their videos before they upload them. When you ...

On Monday YouTube announced that it will list the copyright terms of tracks found in its Audio Library. That way, video creators can search for a track and see how particular copyright restrictions ...

YouTube, the most popular online video-sharing platform in the world, allows users to share, watch and download videos. If you are a content creator, you can easily ...

TuneUp, SongGenie, and Shazam promise to ID unknown songs, but when music-identification programs fail to name that tune, a little Internet sleuthing can help you fill in the missing information in ...