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Our PD Sheet Music Reprints are exact reprints of books and sheet music published in or earlier and include music, lyrics, and complete original copyright information. I Want To. I'm Looking For. What We Do. Arthur Fields, Walter Donaldson V - Way down in the Congo land lived a happy chimpanzee, She loved a monkey with a long tail, Lordy, how she loved him! C - 'Aba, daba, daba, daba, daba, daba, dab' Said the chimpie to the Monk. PD Reprint. Charles K. Harris V - A bright little maiden climbed an old man's knee.
How to know if a song is copyrighted when using it on YouTube?
However, there are three cases in which you can use songs on the Internet without worrying about copyright:. However, you must be sure about it. On the PDInfo website webpage, you can find a big list of songs of this type. If you have downloaded the song from any website that offers free royalty-free music , it is most likely to be under one of the several Creative Commons licenses. What you will have to do in this case is go to the download website and read its section on licenses carefully, to make sure that this is so and to know what kind of restrictions you have when using it. Without a doubt, it is the best option when it comes to using music in your videos or projects. They are songs that are not famous, but they have nothing to envy to those, since their quality and variety are the same. A good place to download them is Epidemic Sound , as we will see further down the article. In all other cases, especially if the music is famous or known , surely that song is copyrighted and you cannot use it. Until recently, a good way to see if a song was royalty-free was to go to the Music Policies section of YouTube.
Music is considered to be in the public domain if it meets any of the following criteria:. If a piece of music does not fall within public domain and is under copyright, then it is unlawful to reproduce, perform, distribute, or create a new version of that music without a proper license under many countries jurisdictions. In the United States , any musical works published in or earlier, in addition to those voluntarily placed in public domain, exist in the public domain.