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## [Ask the Expert: Music Licensing for Video and Film](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/ask-the-expert-music-licensing-for-video-and-film-adaf718bf399)

 By [Justin Woo](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/justin-woo)   
June 30th, 2016

Music licensing for video productions can be complicated. You know you can’t grab a song out of iTunes and throw it on top of your video, but what can you do? More than anything else, your budget is going to control your song selection. If you don’t have tens of thousands of dollars allotted to your music budget alone, mainstream Top 40 pop songs will be out of your reach. But you still have options.

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