Are you looking for music to freely play, edit and redistribute? There are millions of files currently available online with music available under Creative Commons for just that purpose. Here is a list of the most up-to-date music databases curated by our partners at Creative Commons New Zealand.
Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive offers thousands of music tracks with Creative Commons in a search engine with criteria such as genre or artist.
Jamendo
Jamendo is one of the most well-known and largest open music platforms in the world right now. The search is done by genre and at the same time it has a categorization of music tracks according to how much users like them. Remember before using any of the tracks to see the license under which it is available and what options you have.
Bandcamp
Bandcamp freely distribute their music or sell it. And this is what sets bandcamp from other similar websites. It gives the creator the opportunity to sell the tracks through the platform. There is a specific link that connects the creators who have made their tracks available with Creative Commons here.
SoundCloud
Soundcloud over the world as well as entire sets or radio shows. To find free content with Creative Commons licenses, type in the genre or artist or track you are looking for and as you search the results, look to the right of your screen and select the sounds and then the license filter.
The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is currently the source of open content worldwide. If you are looking for material that belongs to the Public Domain, that is, content that is not subject to copyright rules and is completely free to use, enter the Internet Archive now.
ccMixter
ccMixter hosts all kinds of "remixed" music available under Creative Commons licenses. The goal of ccMixter is for you to listen to the music it offers, edit it, and re-release it online !
Turnbull Mixtapes
For the past two years, the National Library of New Zealand has been releasing its own mixtapes featuring music from its own repositories. You can listen to the Library of New Zealand Mixtapes by following this link
GREECE:
In Greece, there are now databases with free music for use. Fairmusic provides you with approximately 370,000 specific music tracks, along with their intellectual and related rights. At the same time, there is CC radio, an initiative of EEL/LAK, Free Software / Open Source Software Company digital music radio ccradio.ellak.gr is a service that is mainly aimed at those who want to publicly reproduce music in their spaces that is freely distributed under Creative Commons licenses (www.creativecommons.gr) and does not create demands from collective management bodies.
Thursday, August 1, 2013 | CreativeCommons