Exporting iMovie to DVD with no audio

I have a finished iMovie project that I am working on and when I export it to make a DVD in quicktime or iDVD, there is no audio. The two songs used in the project were imported to iTunes from CDs that I own. I am guessing there is a copyright issue here, can anyone shed some light? Thansk in advance.

Hi
If You have the Audio-CDs - Then take the file from here and drop it into iMovie.
or
If You have it in iTunes
• Collect needed audio into a new Playlist
• Burn this out as an Audio-CD .aiff (not .mp3)
• Now use the files on this into iMovie
Yours Bengt W

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Jim,
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