Though there are troves of license-free music on the web, their quality is unsurprisingly mixed. Subscription services that provide access to higher-quality license-free music are available, but they're just another budget increase for a segment of filmmaking that's costs are trying to go lower and lower. And for YouTube, giving filmmakers easy access to royalty-free music could lead to less videos that include copyrighted tracks — and importantly, even less video takedowns • Source:.