Mobygratis - no need to steal your 5D MkII soundtrack from Moby

For several reasons I’ve recently started to look a bit more seriously at the legality (or should that be illegality) of just placing any music track onto my amateur 5D MkII films.  As most of us are making films pretty much for our own pleasure a lot of us don’t think twice of adding a track from our iTunes library.  We plan to address this subject in the future on the Cutting Room so I won’t go into detail right now, but just wanted to point out an option for those of you that want to take a very safe approach.

Moby has set up a site (www.mobygratis.com) that allows independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short to download a selection of close to 80 different tracks.  Should you subsequently release the film commercially, Moby promises that the licensing fees will be very reasonable and will go to charity.

Check out the man himself introducing Mobygratis: