Music for YouTube videos: legal, free and royalty-free songs
YouTube videos are often particularly worth seeing if they are accompanied by music. While the internet is full of music, the use of most music is either illegal, paid, or tied to a license. In this practical tip, we will show you how to find the music you want. However, you rarely get around a license.
Legal, free, royalty-free music for YouTube videos
YouTube videos, like the CHIP dancer from one of our practical tips, are more attractive with background music than in complete silence. However: music legally, free of charge and without a license - these are three wishes at once
Even legal, free, royalty-free music with a Creative Commons license is not license-free. The following options are available to support your YouTube video with music:
- One of the few providers of legal, free music for use in YouTube videos is Frametraxx. Although the site asks for the source and a link to the website, the use of the offered pieces does not, however, indicate a binding license.
- The world is full of amateur musicians who like to bring their music to people. Perhaps, on request, you will find willing producers, composers or bands in forums such as the musicians' board who will make their music available to you free of charge for a YouTube video. But here, too, the originator and backlinks are usually desired.
- If the points "free" and "legal" are more important to you than the license-free status, works with a Creative Commons license are the ideal music source for you. Creative Commons licenses, such as Attribution-ShareALike 2.5, allow you to use, distribute and even change the music for life as long as you name the author, the applicable license, view changes and offer the modified version under the same license.
- In our practical tip we show you legal sources for music under Creative Commons license and royalty free music.