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I noticed some teams using Freeplaymusic.com for their animations, so I decided I would check it out. I liked what I heard so I contacted the company to see if I could use their music. Here's the response I got:

Using Freeplay in this regard falls outside of our free terms of use. You will need to license our music for website streaming. I can let you have an educational discount of 50% on each license. Our standard web license is $85.00 per year, per freeplay music song used.

Let me know if this works."

I gave him background about FIRST:

Information about the awards can be found here:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...112&id=1135806

Basically the awards are to get FIRST Robotics students to learn
3D programs such as 3DStudioMax and Autodesk Inventor. Any FIRST Robotics participating school can enter the awards, which are then judged by
Autodesk professionals. I'm not sure what the prizes are this year, but last year they gave computers, and trophies to the winners.
You may have been wondering what FIRST Robotics is. FIRST stands
for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology". The program enables high school students such as myself to be paired with professional engineers, programmers, and graphic artists. Every year we are given a new task, and are given 6 weeks to build a robot to compete in the new task. More information can be found here:

http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/

So I think I explained the situation well. The teams I saw were using this service under their "Educational, Non-Commercial use" policy on their site:

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/terms_of_use.htm

I just wanted to bring this to the attention of teams that used this site for their music in their animations, so they don't get DQed.