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Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to

Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.

jagged-chisel 8mo ago
There's definitely a chance. Start with something like this: https://pixabay.com/music/ https://pixabay.com/music/
- johanvts 8mo ago
  Thanks, but that’s royalty free music which is not an issue.
  - jagged-chisel 8mo ago
    Your original question sounded like you were unaware of how licensing music works. Royalty-free is a good place to start. If you want anything else, you can still do it legally, you just have to license the music for your use case. Various artists (and labels) provide various licensing terms. If you know someone, they might let you do it free. If you're specific question was meant to be "did this person license this music legally for his site?" - yes, there's a chance he did. There's a chance he didn't. You'd have to ask him. Even if he did, that doesn't give anyone else rights to use those songs on their site.
    - DANmode 8mo ago
      Your original reply sounds like you didn’t open the music list on TFA, which has three somewhat popular songs, making royalty-free music emphatically not the topic.
khat 8mo ago
If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.
- georgemcbay 8mo ago
  > If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free. Incredibly unlikely. "Dance Yrself Clean" is owned by Warner Music Group, "Come On Eileen" is owned by Universal Music Group. Both are highly litigious, extremely rights-protective and not in the habit of licensing music for free. It is far more likely the person who put the site up just YOLO'd it and is hoping they never notice.

Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.

jagged-chisel 8mo ago

There's definitely a chance. Start with something like this: https://pixabay.com/music/ https://pixabay.com/music/

johanvts 8mo ago
Thanks, but that’s royalty free music which is not an issue.
- jagged-chisel 8mo ago
  Your original question sounded like you were unaware of how licensing music works. Royalty-free is a good place to start. If you want anything else, you can still do it legally, you just have to license the music for your use case. Various artists (and labels) provide various licensing terms. If you know someone, they might let you do it free. If you're specific question was meant to be "did this person license this music legally for his site?" - yes, there's a chance he did. There's a chance he didn't. You'd have to ask him. Even if he did, that doesn't give anyone else rights to use those songs on their site.
  - DANmode 8mo ago
    Your original reply sounds like you didn’t open the music list on TFA, which has three somewhat popular songs, making royalty-free music emphatically not the topic.

khat 8mo ago

If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.

georgemcbay 8mo ago
> If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free. Incredibly unlikely. "Dance Yrself Clean" is owned by Warner Music Group, "Come On Eileen" is owned by Universal Music Group. Both are highly litigious, extremely rights-protective and not in the habit of licensing music for free. It is far more likely the person who put the site up just YOLO'd it and is hoping they never notice.