Creative Commons Audio

As a follow up to last week’s staff meeting, I thought it might be useful to look a bit more at creative commons – specifically with regard to music.

Podcasting, as well as many of the photo and video products we discussed, allows us to add music to “spice things up”. Technically, we should be paying to use copyrighted music.

The answer: creative commons music. Below are a few websites that provide music licensed as creative commons – which means we are free to use it with anything we produce, as long as we acknowledge use in the credits. I also like the idea of using something different in what we produce.

http://freemusicarchive.org/
http://ccmixter.org/
http://freepd.com/
http://www.freesound.org/ (sound effects, not music)

This link is a “further reading” option, with links to cc audio, picture and text sources.

Let me know (or add a comment here!) if you are interested in learning more.