Downloading legal music

From todays lesson I have learnt that you cannot use music from any website if it has copyright on it unless you ask the artist for permission. The reason why artists put copyrights on there songs is so that other people cannot claim the song as there own. Another reason why is because music needs to be paid for and having the license on the song will ensure you that you get your money. However, even though songs have copyright on them, people still download them illegally. This is a disadvantage for the artist because they are losing out on money.

Although most of the music that are released have copyrights on them there are some songs that haven't got any at all. These songs can be used for any use, as long as the artist states that it has no copyrights or they allow you to use it. These songs can be found on various website, in lesson we visited a website called creative common, this website can be used to navigate to many different websites that have a large variety of music and sound effects. These sounds and music files can be downloaded by just a click of a button.

An advantage of the website is that you can listen to a preview of the sound before you download it so you can hear it.
However once you have downloaded the file you need to compress it so that the file can become smaller so you can easily import it into any software you want.

For are film we will either find music from sound cloud, creative commons or youtube because we think these websites are the most reliable. (We do know that not all songs from youtube aren't copyright free so will make sure that if we do use a song from there we it will be copyright free)


Here are screenshots of creative commons logo and website and the youtube and sound cloud website: