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

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Post by abetusk »

dannyw wrote: post #13
traceroute66 wrote: post #4

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…

This is much better than a "personal use" license or a non-commercial license, but the added licensing terms are, in my opinion, still pretty restrictive:

"""

a. Sale or distribution of Content as digital Content or as digital wallpapers (such as on stock media websites or as NFTs);

b. Sale or distribution of Content e.g. as a posters, digital prints, music files or physical products, without adding any additional elements or otherwise adding value

c. Depiction of identifiable persons in an offensive, pornographic, obscene, immoral, defamatory or libelous way; or

d. Any suggestion that there is an endorsement of products and services by depicted persons, brands, vocalists and organisations, unless permission was granted.

"""

This puts is squarely in the 'non-libre' or 'non-open' side of things.

For example, this would be in violation of any GPL-like license. While software licenses don't necessarily apply to things like pictures, I would be hesitant to include any pictures from Pixabay in any libre software I was creating.

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

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Post by abetusk »

Free being 'gratis' in this case. There are additional licensing terms that make it non-libre/non-open/non-free (as in freedom) [0].

Finding quality libre or public domain art remains difficult. Here are a few resources that I've found:

Archive.org - https://archive.org/

FOSsil Bank Art(Libre) - http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/category:art-libre

Flickr British Library - https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums

Artnome - https://www.artnome.com/art-data

Comic Book Plus - https://comicbookplus.com/ (public domain comics)

And of course, Wikipedia has libre-licensed art. I'm a little embarrassed but PublicDomainPictures and PublicDomainVectors is also a go-to resource for me.

[0] https://pixabay.com/service/terms/#license

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

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Post by ghaff »

abetusk wrote: post #21
dannyw wrote: post #13

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…

This is much better than a "personal use" license or a non-commercial license, but the added licensing terms are, in my opinion, still pretty restrictive: """ a. Sale or distribution of Content as digital Content or as digital wallpapers (such as on stock media websites or as NFTs); b. Sale or distribution of Content e.g. as a posters, digital prints, music files or physical products, without adding any additional el…

a. and b. make it non-free because you basically can't redistribute in unmodified form.

However, restrictions like c. and d. (among others) could come into play however the image is licensed. And, in fact, absent a model release form, any use of images of recognizable people for any sort of marketing or advertising use is suspect.

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

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Post by abetusk »

ghaff wrote: post #24
abetusk wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is much better than a "personal use" license or a non-commercial license, but the added licensing terms are, in my opinion, still pretty restrictive: """ a. Sale or distribution of Content as digital Content or as digital wallpapers (such as on stock media websites or as NFTs); b. Sale or distribution of Content e.g. as a posters, digital prints, music files or physical products, without adding any additional el…

a. and b. make it non-free because you basically can't redistribute in unmodified form. However, restrictions like c. and d. (among others) could come into play however the image is licensed. And, in fact, absent a model release form, any use of images of recognizable people for any sort of marketing or advertising use is suspect.

Agreed but having clauses "c" and "d" can be abused.

If the usage outlined is illegal, then there's no need to add it to a license agreement as the type of use is prevented by law.

If it's legal then there's always the possibility to prevent usage by claiming it violates the terms outlined.

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

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Post by ghaff »

abetusk wrote: post #25
ghaff wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a. and b. make it non-free because you basically can't redistribute in unmodified form. However, restrictions like c. and d. (among others) could come into play however the image is licensed. And, in fact, absent a model release form, any use of images of recognizable people for any sort of marketing or advertising use is suspect.

Agreed but having clauses "c" and "d" can be abused. If the usage outlined is illegal, then there's no need to add it to a license agreement as the type of use is prevented by law. If it's legal then there's always the possibility to prevent usage by claiming it violates the terms outlined.

I don't disagree. Those uses are probably mostly not issues the government would involve itself in but could be legitimate civil torts. It may be worth reminding people of those things somewhere but arguably doesn't belong in the license itself.

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

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Post by Thorrez »

traceroute66 wrote: post #4

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,…

I think that caveat only applies to images, not music, right? The title of this post only mentions music (I don't know why).

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

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Post by Thorrez »

birdyrooster wrote: post #6
traceroute66 wrote: post #4

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,…

Lol so it’s a search engine masquerading as a royalty free media site

Is it a search engine searching other sites, or is it just searching stuff that its own users uploaded?
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