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Music licenses

If YouTube or another platform has flagged music in your film, this page is your evidence.

Find your track below and use the license link. Every track StoryHive can put in a film is free to use commercially — Creative Commons or public domain — and none of it requires a payment or a content claim. A claim on one of these tracks is either an automated mistake or a false claim, and it can be disputed.

What to do, step by step

  1. Find the track name.Your film's closing card credits its music after the word “Music:” — up to three tracks by name, then “+N more” if the film used more than three. If the claim names a track directly, use that name instead; every track we can use is listed below, whether or not it was named on the card.
  2. Find it in the list below and open its license link.
  3. Dispute the claim using that license URL. Where the dispute form asks why you have the right to use the music, paste the exact attribution line shown for the track (or, for a public-domain or CC0 track, state that it is in the public domain and requires no license).
  4. Tell the platform the music was edited if it asks. See the note below — this is disclosed deliberately.

If you cannot find your track, or a claim is not resolved, email [email protected] and we will help you with the dispute.

Every track is edited to fit the film

Edited to fit each film: silence trimmed, crossfaded with other tracks, volume adjusted, lowered under speech, and faded in and out.

This is stated plainly because some of the licenses below require that changes to the original recording be indicated. It also explains why the music in a film will not match the original recording exactly.

The library at a glance

64 tracks can be used in a film. 40 of them require credit; the remaining 24 are CC0 or public domain and require none.

  • CC BY 4.0 — 34
  • CC0 1.0 — 18
  • CC BY 3.0 — 6
  • Public Domain (Musopen Kickstarter release; Musopen's own archive.org item declares CC0 1.0) — 6

Each track's license was checked against its source page. This is a good-faith documentation record, not legal advice.

Every track

Photographer and font credits are on the credits page. Music you upload yourself is your responsibility — see the music section of our Terms of Service. To report infringing content, see our copyright and DMCA page.

This page is published in English only, and the English text is authoritative.