Is it legal to use a song purchased from the iTunes Store?

I'd like to put a song on my website. However, that song is a song which I purchased from the iTunes Store. Is it legal for me to put that song on my website?

No, it's not legal, not without a license from the owner of the rights to the track, usually the record company, to provide it on a web site, and such a license would be difficult to obtain and probably prohibitively expensive. Use of tracks for any purpose other than your own personal playback is also a violation of the terms of sale of the iTunes Store. If you want music on your web site, I'd suggest composing and performing your own, perhaps with GarageBand, or buying a track from one of the services that offer royalty-free licences.
Regards.

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Hello there,
I have had a similar proble and the details are as follows:
Towards the end of the process of setting up the account there was a window that flashed momentarily saying somthing like "an authorixation file could not be installed". However, the next window stated that the account set up installation was successful.
Now that I have purchased a few songs I cannot listen in itunes nor download them on the iPod because (after I enter my password) a window with this message appears saying:
Beg Quote:
" itunes
There was an error sharing your authorization information on this computer.
The required file was not found or has a permission error. Correct this permission problem and try again, or deauthorize this computer if the permission cannot be changed."
End Quote
I have tried to "Deauthorize the computer for the Music Store Account" but the same window as above comes up and I am back where I started.
I would appreciate Customer Support on this and I look forward to a reply from the itunes Music Store so that I can utilize the services I signed up for.
Thank you and best regards,
Judy
PS:
We are Canadians living in UK. Accordingly, we created the account using our Canadian billing address but our Internet provider is NTL in the United Kingdom.

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Thank you for your answer
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Thanks again!
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What happens when you try?
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NOTE: More recent iTunes Store song purchases do not use DRM, although other type of media (such as TV shows and movies) still do.
If that's not the cause of your problem, please post back with more details...

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ps I used to be able to create my own "Ringtones" via iTunes and songs I had in iTunes, but they took that away I guess.
No they didn't. You can still create your own ringtone using computer iTunes.
Here are the steps:
Select a title (.mp3 or .m4a) in your iTunes Library
2. Do File > Get Info on selected title (Windows do Edit > Get Info)
3. In the dialog choose Options tab
4. Set Start Time and End Time (no more than 35 secs otherwise won't work)
5. Close dialog.
6. Now control click the title (right click) and choose Create AAC Version
7. When it is done, drag the newly create title to the desktop.
8. Delete the newly create title in iTunes.
9. Rename the title on your desktop from ringtone.m4a to ringtone.m4r
10. Drag and drop it into iTunes
Now you have a ringtone.
Make sure it is selected in iTunes's Tones tab for syncing with your iPhone.

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