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        "projects_signup" : "https://magnatune.com/member/signup",
        "royalty_free" : "Membership is royalty-free licensing: no per-video, per-download or per-view fees, for every project created and released while a member.",
        "youtube" : "YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, podcasts: members may use the clean songs in monetized videos. Members register their YouTube channel (the set_youtube_channel MCP tool, or their account page) so YouTube's Content ID doesn't claim their videos. The free versions carry a spoken Magnatune voice and are non-commercial (CC BY-NC-SA), so they're not for monetized channels or client work.",
        "details" : "https://magnatune.com/info/licensing",
        "how_to_credit" : "Name the artist and \"Magnatune\", with a link to the album's web_url."
    }
}