

Intellectual property is any product of human intelligence whose ownership can be claimed and protected by law, including musical works. These compositions are considered “intellectual property”. Normally, the authors of the songs have exclusive rights to their compositions. In other words, it is as if they belong to everyone. Musical works in the public domain may be copied, distributed, adapted, performed and displayed in public free of charge. Therefore they can be used without the need for any permission or payment to the author of the same. Music in the public domain is made up of any and all works that are not protected by copyright. It will all make sense as you progress through the reading. Don’t worry if you don’t understand it right now. The part that appears in green is the part corresponding to public domain music.Īnd if you look, it’s also part of the group with the double CC. Otherwise, you may not solve your doubts, misinterpret some information and you may have problems using music in an illegal way.īefore you start, however, we recommend that you take a look at the following image, which shows the different types of licenses. To do this it is essential that you read the article in order and from beginning to end. So, in order to avoid scary and uncomfortable situations with copyrights, along with the article, we will solve all the doubts related to public domain music. Well, in all of this there are parts of truth and parts that are simply not true. And, above all, most of the catalog is free music.Others confirm that it’s royalty-free music.Other people say it’s simply music without copyright.Some people confuse the music tracks belonging to this group with the Creative Commons license.
