Music Licensing Options For Your Film:

1.     Original Music. That is music you created yourself or hired a composer. If you had someone make the music for you, just make sure you have an email or simple release stating it’s okay to use.

2.     Licensed Music. Licensed music is music you don’t own and isn’t exclusively for your film, but you get permission to use, either for free or for a small fee.

3.     Non-Licensed Music from another Film or a Big Artist. It’s illegal and you could get in serious trouble.  Don’t use music in your film you don’t have permission for or have paid to use. In addition, this includes any music that was sampled to help create another original song – those sampled tunes will need an artist’s permission for use or a license to use the sampling in the created song. 

Free Music Licensing Options:

Creative Commons Music. A list of websites where artists have donated their music under the creative commons rules. https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos