This guide will point you toward resources to help navigate the complex world of music copyright issues.

A collection covering the history of popular music in the US from 1790 to the present.  Almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra. Digital versions of the sheet music, and performances of the songs now in the public domain.

Each music published on auboutdufil is subject to a free distribution contract, generally Creative Commons, chosen by the creator. The author keeps his rights on his work, however, he authorizes certain freedoms under certain conditions.

Royalty Free Music from Bensound for use in Videos, Youtube, films,... Only high quality royalty free music.

(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) For classical music lovers, this site is a compendium of the essentials of the best music in the world. It contains musical scores and sheet music, MP3 recordings, MIDI files, a thematic dictionary and a biographical database. As well as all the best tunes by the immortal composers from before Bac…

The CC-Zero-Project is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to public domain music, sound and voice recordings

Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information. CPDL copyright license

Classical piano MIDI and MP3 sequences by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikowsky and others for free download

You are invited to view or upload audios to the Community collection. These thousands of recordings were all contributed by Archive users and community members. Please select a Creative Commons License during upload so that others will know what they may (or may not) do with with your audio....

Mixes are (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) But note: tracks may have individual copyrights that are held by the respective artists and/or labels involved, and are here used with their then prior and/or written given permission. Just be aware.

Kansas City Postal Band / Unidentified photographer(courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution) / Public Domain Our friends at SoundCloud just told us about a contest they’re running with the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian publishes audio from its archives on SoundCloud under CC BY-NC. Now, i…

(CC0 1.0) This site is dedicated to the preservation of the Jazz music of the early twentieth century. Many of these recordings were made on fragile, 78-RPM, shellac discs and exist only in the collections of some contributors to this website.

The Dutch Song Database contains more than 175,000 Dutch songs, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

Your resource for free music. Browse, listen and download music for free. No ads, no subscriptions. YouTube, podcast, short film or another media project you need to finish safely? Check the royalty-free music section provided by Tribe of Noise PRO.

Royalty Free Music Resource. Free song downloads for your films, movie scores, Youtube videos, class projects, elevator, on hold, commercial & personal use

Hassle free Creative Commons music. Search and download free high quality music for podcasts, phone messages, background music for your business, YouTube videos... No sign up required!

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?

Royalty Free Music for films or videos

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Any Song or Musical Work Published in 1924 or Earlier is in the Public Domain in the USA. No Sound Recordings are PD in the USA due to a tangled complexity of Federal and State Law.

Loeb Music Library’s digital collection of scores and libretti, selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching.

Welcome to the Netlabels collection at the Internet Archive. This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of ‘virtual record labels’. These ‘netlabels’ are non-profit, community-built entities dedicated to providing high quality,...

Open Music Archive is a collaborative project, initiated by artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White, to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. The archive distributes these recordings freely, forms a site of exchange, and is a vehicle for future collab…

Public Domain Music ( pdmusic.org ) is a place to learn about music and hopefully get inspired to pick up an instrument and start playing. So many people are interested in music, but they think they can’t learn how to play an instrument because it’s too difficult. Or worse, they want to learn how to…

Download thousands of media files including stock footage, images, songs, and more for FREE from Pond5′s Public Domain Project.

On this page you will find recordings of classical music that are no longer protected under German copyright law. 1,411 works are currently available!

Happy New Year! As a gift to the world, I have changed the Creative Commons license applicable to my music library to Attribution 4.0 International (CC By 4.0).

Digital collection of 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Catálogo de música uruguaya con licencias Creative Commons – Música Libre Uruguay

Download over 71,000 free sound effects and royalty free music tracks in mp3 and wav format. Professionally recorded and constantly updated.

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Welcome to our Royalty Free Sounds from Creative Commons and Public Domain only at SoundBible.com These sounds are completely royalty free, meaning you can use them commerc...

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This is the main page for listing full length free content musical works available on Wikipedia or (more often) Wikimedia Commons, with special emphasis on works that are (or should be) linked in Wikipedia articles.