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DRM protected

I’ve purchased a song in iTunes but I can’t use it for my project in iMovie and every time I tried, the app shows the following message: Song Unavailable: This song is DRM protected and can’t be used by iMovie. How come ?

iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 13

Posted on Mar 26, 2023 9:11 AM

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Posted on Mar 26, 2023 10:54 AM

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management which is a copy protection scheme.

You cannot use that file in your movie, you can only listen to it.


You can purchase an mp3 version which has no DRM from sites such as Amazon, YouTube, etc.

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