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Not everything online is free just because you find it on Google. You know that, right? And just because you found something that it offered „free' and you used it in your work, doesn't mean some third party won't report you for it.

Let's say you made some awesome video featuring your great web-design skills. You uploaded it on YouTube then shared onto your site. If the music you used isn't royalty free or without any limitations, YouTube can erase it and get your account suspended. The same goes for Social Media accounts, too. And the next steps could be reporting your site, too. Simply, no one should use the work that isn't specifically given for free.

That is why we wrote this article, to help you find free music and audio sounds for the projects you can use without worrying. Read on, and you're welcome.

What is public domain music?

Public domain music refers to all the music whose rights are expired, that don't have copyrights or the music whose authors submitted into the public domain.

It is all the music that can be shared freely and without any legal consequences. So, instead of going for streaming music services and pirated music (a big no-no), there's a big collection of places you can find, download and use free public domain music.

To save you the time and energy of finding out them yourselves, I made this list of some of the most significant sources for free music check it out!

How and where to use free public domain music or royalty-free music?

Today we mark the 20th Anniversary of Distributed Proofreaders. Over the last 20 years, nearly 55,000 DP volunteers from around the globe have contributed to creating nearly 40,000 e-books for release into the public domain through Project Gutenberg. Term extensions by the US and Australia generally have not removed works from the public domain, but rather delayed the addition of works to it. However, the United States moved away from that tradition with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, which removed from the public domain many foreign-sourced works that had previously not been in.

Perhaps you're a WordPress web designer or developer and want to showcase your work. Maybe put a portfolio of who you are. Having music in the background can enhance your online resume or client's site. Remember Who is Leon?You get the idea.

On the other hand, you may have your own business, a beauty salon or a yoga center – like Yoga for mountain bikers (uses our Vlog theme) – and you film short how-to videos and exercises. Can't do itwell without proper music background that won't get you into trouble. Either way, these are the situations where knowing where to find free music for your projects come in handy.

Where to find free public domain music

Buy Domains Australia

Free music public domain

A source of royalty free music for your audio and video projects. Making a new YouTube video or developing your website portfolio and need some good quality music? Free music public domain is a place for you to explore. Search among 22 different categories and download music of choice in three steps:

Movies
  1. Select the category
  2. Choose the song
  3. Download it to your computer and/or smartphone
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Moby Gratis

Famous music performer has a website where you can find lots of royalty-free music for your projects. The only condition is that you use it for independent, non-profit film or project, video or short. Explore and find the music of your choice among more than 150 tracks from Moby's music. How cool is that? 🙂

Free soundtrack music

A large number of free public domain music for you to download and use. And, while not all of them are free, the ones that are clearly marked and easy to find. There are more than 1,400 royalty-free recordings for use in video, film and multimedia projects and about 20% of them are completely free. New music is being added each month.

Free music archive

A place of free public domain music, from the ones whose copyright has expired to the ones that are donated by generous artists to the music with CC0 license. Enjoy searching among almost 3000 tracks in 16 different genres!

International Music Score Library Project

A source of over 435,150 scores or various free public domain music, this is a place where you0ll surely find all the music resources you need for your projects. Divided by composers, nationality, period or genre, here you'll find some of the best world's public domain music.

FreePD

Public Domain Movies Australia

100% free music under Creative Commons 1.0 Universal license. Download any mp3 and use them how you want. The music from this site you can use on YouTube, Facebook, within an ad, in a movie and within any project you want without worrying you'd be blocked.

Musopen

A site that offers free classical public domain music you can browse by composer, performer, instrument, form and time period. All the music can be downloaded as an MP3 file. Apart from free music recordings, you can also download free sheet music files and textbooks too J

Public Domain Video Australia

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The Freesound Project

A collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds that exist for ten years. Here you can browse, download and share sounds and use them freely. Just as the WordPress is an open source, the Freesound Project is an open database for audio sounds and music.

YouTube Audio Library

Free music on YouTube? You heard it right. Several years ago, YouTube launched the YouTube Audio Library with free music and Sound effects for your audio/video projects. You can search for music by genre, mood, instrument, duration, and attribution and download it as MP3 files. All of the music and sound effects are royalty-free and in high-quality 320kbps audio tracks. More on how to get and use the music from the library you'll find in the About section of Support.

Wrapping up

I hope this list of free public domain music websites saves you time finding free music and audio sounds for your next project. Be sure to check out our list of the top free photo websites too, to further save some time and make awesome new projects!

Also, if you found some additional resources that offer free music, be sure to mention them in the comment section, thanks!

Public Domain Australia Music

horror

In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation. Note: This item contains a user-contributed srt subtitle file. To use this file you must download an srt compatible player and point it at the correct video and srt files (google for srt subtitles).

romance, comedy

Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation. Along with plenty of laughs and fast paced dialog this film provides a witty and cynical look at news business. There is a slight audio sync problem in the first couple minutes of the film.


Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as 'the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.'

exploitation, cult, pdmovies

Considered THE archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, but it's really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Like many exploitation films of the time, 'Reefer Madness' tried to make a quick buck off of a forbidden subject while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. The Code forbade the portrayal of immoral acts like drug use.

pdmovies

A biography of the beloved United States president by D. W. Griffith. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

animation

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

Drama, horror, Thriller

Railclone for 3ds max 2014 free download. Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house.

The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Charlie Chaplin, Silents

Charlie Chaplins 53rd Film Released July 10 1916 The Vagabond was a silent film by Charlie Chaplin and his third film with Mutual Films. Released in 1916, it co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Leo White and Lloyd Bacon. This film echoed Chaplin's work on The Tramp, with more drama mixed in with comedy. The story begins with Charlie, playing music to raise money, and instead finds the abused girl (played by Edna) living in a gypsy camp. As in The Tramp, he works on finding a way to help her.

crime, Drama, Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Kim Charney

'Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer well-portrayed against type by Frank Sinatra.' - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates. 77 min.

1960s, soviet, space, pdmovies

A team of astronauts crashes on the surface of Venus. Accompanied by their robot, they explore the surface and end up destroying the Venusian God. This film is also known as 'The Gill Women' and 'The Gill Women of Venus'. This film began life as a Soviet-produced work. An American producer then added some new footage and changed the credits to hide the film's Soviet origin. The original film, 'Planeta Bur', is also known as 'Cosmonauts on Venus', 'Planet of Storms', 'Planet of Tempests', 'Planeta Burg', and 'Storm Planet'.





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