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This is a link post for any fellow podcasters out there. As you may well know, if you are trying to make a podcast, it’s nice to have some background music/intro music/bumper music. However, you can’t just use any old music because of copyright laws.

This actually goes for anyone who is trying to make a presentation or a video of some kind which will be displayed in front of a larger audience like a church or even distributed via the internet. It’s my understanding that if you’re just showing the video/presentation to a small audience in your own home then you’re safe to use whatever kind of music you want, however, if at some point you decide to post it on your blog or show it to your church on Sunday morning, then you’re going to have either redo your presentation using copyright-free music or obtain a costly license to use the music.

Well, here are some links to places that offer free music that you can use for just about anything except for commercial purposes (some of them can even be used for that). Please refer to the license information provided with each song or on the website itself. Some artists do ask to be notified if it is going to be used publicly, and some of them ask you not to remix the music in anyway (using excerpts notwithstanding), but others place absolutely no restrictions at all on their music. Two of them are secualr websites where you might find some Christian music and the last one is specifically worship:

Podsafe Music Network
macjams.com
freeworshipmusic.com