I want background music for my videos, but I don't want to break copyright law on YouTube. I would be willing to make my own music by computer software if there is one.

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dude u can use 2 of my tracks if u like. ("scary" and "angel" at soundcloud.com/mrdude_o_o). also you may contact musicians via soundcloud.com and indaba.com and in similar websites. you can make your own music with Fruity Loops. (www.flstudio.com)

You can use other people's music. Some people are both talented and generous (like Mr. Dude_o_o who already answered) and either put their work in the public demain - free to use for any purpose by anyone - or issue it under a Creative Commons license. There are different licenses around, some say you cannot use the work for commercial (profit) use or you simply have to give credit to the author. Good sources are... http://search.creativecommons.org/ http://www.jamendo.com/ http://spinxpress.com/ http://mashable.com/2007/10/27/creative-commons/ http://blogs.sitepoint.com/30-creative-commons-sources/ http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ahrc/resources/cclinks.html Penn State University has a nice collection of public domain material - http://mediacommons.psu.edu/freemedia AV Geeks has 20,000 films - http://www.avgeeks.com/ VJ Loops may have something useful - http://www.archive.org/details/vj_loops WGBH TV - has free video clips - http://lab.wgbh.org/sandbox/