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Skip to content. Blog Music Licensing Copyright claims. Early recordings that are in the public domain have also been included on this site. This online presentation makes available all music manuscripts of works in the public domain from the Sousa Collection. The collection presented online stops at Many works published after that year remain under copyright in the United States.
NASA: Soundcloud. Explore the universe and discover our home planet with NASA through a collection of our sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions. Public Domain Review: Audio Collection. Search by time period, content, genre, or rights. Other Websites The Aria Database. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions.
Choral Public Domain Library. Search for public domain musical scores, texts, translations, and more. To do this it is essential that you read the article in order and from beginning to end. Otherwise, you may not solve your doubts, misinterpret some information and you may have problems using music in an illegal way. Before you start, however, we recommend that you take a look at the following image, which shows the different types of licenses.
The part that appears in green is the part corresponding to public domain music. It will all make sense as you progress through the reading. Music in the public domain is made up of any and all works that are not protected by copyright.
Therefore they can be used without the need for any permission or payment to the author of the same. Musical works in the public domain may be copied, distributed, adapted, performed and displayed in public free of charge.
Intellectual property is any product of human intelligence whose ownership can be claimed and protected by law, including musical works. The exclusive rights to the compositions are known as copyright, which protects the musical composition for a long period of time, even if it has never been registered with the copyright office. These rights are usually in effect and associated with a piece of music until they expire. The exact time depends on the laws of each country but it is usually between 70 and 95 years after the death of the author of the original piece.
After that time, the piece of music ceases to be copyrighted, i. This is the case of registered songs in which the author voluntarily renounces all copyrights to the song. If you think about it, you could use those songs in the same way as the ones in the public domain. However, this song is licensed under the Creative Commons licenses. On the other hand, music protected by a Creative Commons free license has certain limitations on the reproduction, distribution, dissemination and copying of a musical work.
The limitations will depend directly on which of the 7 Creative Commons licenses is in effect. If you want to know more about these licenses, we suggest you visit this article. However, there is one license that is often mistakenly confused with the public domain: the Creative Commons Zero license CC0.
This license is the only one of the Creative Commons licenses that proposes total freedom of use of a piece of music. This is due to the enormous generosity of the author of the music track, who renounces his rights to make the track available to the public, free of charge and without requiring his own mention.
Nowadays, any musical work is usually monetized or, in its lack, the author is mentioned so that he can take the merits of his work. At the beginning of the article we showed this image to you so that you could get an idea of the licenses. Now, we show it again so you can see that the Public Domain and the Creative Commons Zero 0 license appear as the same.
In practice, there would be no difference, since both allow a total use of the music track without any barrier. Now that the differences between public domain music and Creative Commons licenses have been clarified, and specifically the differences with respect to the Creative Commons Zero license, it is time to answer another of the big questions.
In theory, the songs in the public domain are not copyrighted so you can download them and use them for free in any project. However, there are companies and online platforms that charge for the download of these music tracks.
However, anyone can decide to invest money in performing such work and recording it on a medium, either physical CD, Vinyl… or digital Mp3, Wav….
The ability to collect royalties on the recording of public domain music is what makes companies willing to invest money in, for example, producing classical music records in order to exploit them commercially. Similarly, there are companies that benefit from selling licenses to use such recordings in all kinds of audiovisual projects.
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