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Re: Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free

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Here's a list of sites from the creative commons.

Music for use in videos:

https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture...

Music communities:

https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture...

If you're doing audio postprocessing, I suggest listening to this excellent podcast tutorial.

https://www.drabblecast.org/tag/relaunch-prelaunch/

It's the second to last episode: Inside Drabblecast Audio.

Have fun!

(I have no affiliation with the Drabblecast; it is one of my favorite fiction podcasts, and has great audio production quality.)

Re: Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free

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The devil is in the detail as they say. Pixbay is verry waffly on what is and is not permitted[1], and in their "conclusion" they basically wash their hands of the risk, putting the onus back on the user: Understand that Pixabay images can be used in many instances without asking permission from the image author. However, it is your responsibility, to make sure the depicted content (persons, logos, designs, property,…

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Re: Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free

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The devil is in the detail as they say. Pixbay is verry waffly on what is and is not permitted[1], and in their "conclusion" they basically wash their hands of the risk, putting the onus back on the user: Understand that Pixabay images can be used in many instances without asking permission from the image author. However, it is your responsibility, to make sure the depicted content (persons, logos, designs, property,…

(Disclosure: I work for Canva, the parent company of Pixabay).

Pixabay does offer a legally binding license to you, written here: https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license

> Under the Pixabay License you are granted an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty free right to use, download, copy, modify or adapt the Content for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Attribution of the photographer, videographer, musician or Pixabay is not required but is always appreciated.

(subject to exclusions, you should read in the license)

Of course, being a free stock library, Pixabay isn't able to offer specific warranties beyond the provided rights, like Getty's paid offering. The same way an open source project isn't going to come with support that you'd get from licensing an Oracle product.

Re: Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free

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post #9

Can I use the music for YouTube vlogs?

I don't expect a copyright match using these. But if you do get one, consider the site flawed since the music is supposed to be royalty free, gratis and absent of copyright

Actually, if you do get one, you should be able to clear it with a Pixabay License certificate: https://pixabay.com/blog/posts/how-to-clear-a-youtube-conten...

(Disclosure: I work for Canva, the parent company of Pixabay).

Re: Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free

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post #13

The devil is in the detail as they say. Pixbay is verry waffly on what is and is not permitted[1], and in their "conclusion" they basically wash their hands of the risk, putting the onus back on the user: Understand that Pixabay images can be used in many instances without asking permission from the image author. However, it is your responsibility, to make sure the depicted content (persons, logos, designs, property,…

(Disclosure: I work for Canva, the parent company of Pixabay). Pixabay does offer a legally binding license to you, written here: https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license > Under the Pixabay License you are granted an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty free right to use, download, copy, modify or adapt the Content for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Attribution of the photographer, videographe…

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Re: Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free

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post #13

The devil is in the detail as they say. Pixbay is verry waffly on what is and is not permitted[1], and in their "conclusion" they basically wash their hands of the risk, putting the onus back on the user: Understand that Pixabay images can be used in many instances without asking permission from the image author. However, it is your responsibility, to make sure the depicted content (persons, logos, designs, property,…

(Disclosure: I work for Canva, the parent company of Pixabay). Pixabay does offer a legally binding license to you, written here: https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license > Under the Pixabay License you are granted an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty free right to use, download, copy, modify or adapt the Content for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Attribution of the photographer, videographe…

> The same way an open source project isn't going to come with support that you'd get from licensing a (paid) Oracle product.

I've seen some clutching-at-straws arguments in my time, but oof, that's a doozy ! Apples and Oranges.

Let's just say I would question the utility of an image "license" that is not able to provide an infringement warranty.

As for the "cost" of a Getty (or other) image license. Said cost of an image is far, far, FAR lower than being taken to court for rights infringement.

Re: Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Disclosure: I work for Canva, the parent company of Pixabay). Pixabay does offer a legally binding license to you, written here: https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license > Under the Pixabay License you are granted an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty free right to use, download, copy, modify or adapt the Content for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Attribution of the photographer, videographe…

> The same way an open source project isn't going to come with support that you'd get from licensing a (paid) Oracle product. I've seen some clutching-at-straws arguments in my time, but oof, that's a doozy ! Apples and Oranges. Let's just say I would question the utility of an image "license" that is not able to provide an infringement warranty. As for the "cost" of a Getty (or other) image license. Said cost of an…

I think it's a reasonable comparison: most open source licenses don't give you trademark rights. For example, see the "Trademarks" exclusion in the Apache 2.0 license.

When it comes to Pixabay content, most do not feature trademarks, or identifiable persons. That makes the Getty warranties moot.

Furthermore, their warranties have caveats ("your use of such content in accordance with this agreement"). If you use a stock photo with a model in an obscene or pornographic way, that automatically voids the Getty license and the warranty, the same way it automatically voids the Pixabay license.

> As for the "cost" of a Getty (or other) image license. Said cost of an image is far, far, FAR lower than being taken to court for rights infringement.

Yes, however, rightsholders don't go straight to court filings unless you're maybe doing a Superbowl commercial or something. They'd usually send you a letter of demand for $xxx for a retroactive license.

If this does happen to anyone, please reach out to info@pixabay.com or copyright@canva.com depending on where you got the content from; it's very rare but we do have a process and legal team that helps with this. And I can tell you: paid stock libraries (including Getty) deal with these too, and resolve it in essentially the same way we do.

Re: Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free

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post #13

The devil is in the detail as they say. Pixbay is verry waffly on what is and is not permitted[1], and in their "conclusion" they basically wash their hands of the risk, putting the onus back on the user: Understand that Pixabay images can be used in many instances without asking permission from the image author. However, it is your responsibility, to make sure the depicted content (persons, logos, designs, property,…

(Disclosure: I work for Canva, the parent company of Pixabay). Pixabay does offer a legally binding license to you, written here: https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license > Under the Pixabay License you are granted an irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty free right to use, download, copy, modify or adapt the Content for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Attribution of the photographer, videographe…

> Pixabay does offer a legally binding license to you, written here: https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license

"However, it is your responsibility, to make sure the depicted content (persons, logos, designs, property, etc.) is suitable for your use and does not infringe any rights" (https://pixabay.com/blog/posts/pixabay-license-what-is-allow...)

What happens when the depicted content does infringe through no fault of the user who got the image from Pixabay?

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