The official way to use copyrighted music on YouTube is through YouTube Studio > Audio library. The audio library includes free music and sound effects, some of which don't even require attribution.

The key to Open Source and Royalty-Free and Public Domain media is collaboration, and the furtherance of humankind by using what our predecessors have made and building up and outward. YouTube has ...

Are you an individual or content creator who wants to use Free music without getting a copyright strike on your video? As an audio library, YouTube allows you to ...

YouTube currently offers more than 150,000 audio tracks on its site that video producers can use as background music for their videos. Those tracks, however, can’t ...

For today’s creator content, great audio isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s essential. From YouTube videos to podcasts and Spotify, and all content in between, royalty-free music is vital to telling your ...

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