Owners of restaurants, hotels, spas, bars, pubs. clubs of various kinds and shops that want to put background music or entertainment on their premises, should pay the SIAE tax to pay artists a percentage of earnings and to respect copyright. This also applies to parties, where, in theory, if you call a DJ or a group that plays, if you want to remix or play a song legally, you need the permission of the copyright holder. The fee must be paid even if you want to put music in an independent film project or in a video and, I believe, also for websites that want to put music on their pages. I'm not an expert in law, but a solution to download music for free without violating any law and to pay nothing when putting music in a club or at a party should be to use songs whose copyright is protected by a Creative Commons license which while maintaining copyright, they are free songs .
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Hence, all streaming music websites such as Spotify and Youtube could not, in theory, be used in public places or commercial stores to spread music. This makes it difficult for non-profit associations, for locals and for individuals who want to organize parties or weddings, to play the songs legally and without paying.
Below we see the best sites where you can download music legally for free or listen to music free of copyright and taxes.
1) To play music legally, without the SIAE being able to claim taxes and without going against the law, you can pay for a very cheap streaming music service, the PRO version of the Jamendo web application.
On the Jamendo Pro website there are all the technical and legal details ( in Italian ) to put music in various types of premises and shops, paying a figure that is around 50 Euros per year.
The site ensures that there is no need to pay any additional fees to SIAE or other entities.
Jamendo is also a site that allows you, free and legally, to download many free songs and high quality music composed and played by independent producers and artists, which can be listened to and used for your own musical projects without any legal problems. Any musician can share their music for free on the site and let it be downloaded and listened to by whoever they want, while maintaining copyright. A music lover looking for new songs can use the wonderful Jamendo service, also in the Italian version, which contains all types and musical genres. However, Jamendo is not the only site with free music and there are several alternatives of Liege sites with music to listen to streaming or download including:
2) Youtube has a section of free and free music to download and listen to, without copyright, an absolutely free list of songs. The free tracks of YOutube can be used in published videos without risking any penalty and can be downloaded in MP3 format for any commercial purpose.
3) Ben-Sound has instrumental and vocal songs that can be downloaded without any registration. The site provides plugins for Fruity Loops, Cubase, Audacity and other software.
4) TakeTons is a site of music and songs to be used freely within videos that can be published without copyright problems. There are songs played in different categories: rock, pop, children, cinema, ambient, hip hop, jazz funk, folk and electronics. The site requires registration to download music.
5) NoiseTrade is a really good website to search for free songs from artists from all over the world, including famous ones such as Bob Dylan and Beastie Boys
You can download the songs you like for free, for non-commercial purposes.
6) Open music archive is a completely free and free to use music site.
7) Newsgrounds
8) CCMixter is a site where you can download free music to use for mixes, for films and videos, for video games and advertisements. No registration is required to download music in MP3 format.
9) Amazon has the section of music that can be purchased for free.
10) Free Music Archive is another site for downloading free music.
11) Musopen is a music library that hosts all types of music without copyright, perfect especially for looking for classical music to listen to online or download.
12) Audio Archive is an archive of free sounds and songs.
13) Opsound is a collection of alternative music of various kinds.
14) Audionautix is a site for downloading music of different genres, free and without copyright. The download will be saved as an MP3.
Those who say that there is no licensed music can therefore be denied by these sites
