[HN Gopher] Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free
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Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free
Author : schleck8
Score : 166 points
Date : 2022-05-08 11:51 UTC (11 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (pixabay.com)
| traceroute66 wrote:
| 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, etc.) is suitable for your use and does
| not infringe any rights._
|
| Meanwhile, somewhere like Getty gives a clear warranty that using
| their Royalty-Free content will not infringe on rights[1]:
|
| _For licensed royalty-free content (excluding content marked
| "editorial" or "intended for editorial"), Getty Images warrants
| that your use of such content in accordance with this agreement
| and in the form delivered by Getty Images (that is, excluding any
| modifications, overlays or refocusing done by you) will not
| infringe on any trademark or other intellectual property right,
| and will not violate any right of privacy or right of publicity._
|
| [1] https://pixabay.com/blog/posts/pixabay-license-what-is-
| allow... [2] https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/eula
| birdyrooster wrote:
| Lol so it's a search engine masquerading as a royalty free
| media site
| [deleted]
| dannyw wrote:
| (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.
| traceroute66 wrote:
| > 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.
| dannyw wrote:
| 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.
| abetusk wrote:
| 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.
| ghaff wrote:
| 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.
| abetusk wrote:
| 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.
| ghaff wrote:
| 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.
| seanwilson wrote:
| > 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?
| ogma wrote:
| mdoms wrote:
| Ah so this is where all of that terrible Kickstarter pitch video
| music comes from.
| chaosprint wrote:
| Can I use the music for YouTube vlogs?
| sysadm1n wrote:
| 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
| dannyw wrote:
| 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).
| abetusk wrote:
| 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
| sidedishes wrote:
| Related is Kevin MacLeod [1]'s music [2], who you've almost
| -certainly- heard before. He has thousands of royalty-free CC
| music and has become deeply entrenched in (at least my perception
| of) early 2010s internet BGM.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_MacLeod [2]
| https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/
| Andrex wrote:
| Imagine my surprise when I saw Incompetech credited in every
| episode of Last Podcast on the Left. I credited them in a short
| film about 7 years ago and it was surreal seeing it pop up
| again.
| dannyking wrote:
| There's also the YouTube channel AudioLibraryFreeMusic that has a
| lot of high quality songs that are apparently safe to use, even
| for commerical use.
|
| https://m.youtube.com/c/AudioLibraryFreeMusic/featured
| hedora wrote:
| 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.)
| afrcnc wrote:
| not that great, though
| Tijdreiziger wrote:
| Related:
|
| Openverse https://wordpress.org/openverse/ (formerly CC Search)
|
| NoCopyrightSounds https://ncs.io/
|
| Dova-Syndrome https://dova-s.jp/EN/
|
| Incompetech https://incompetech.com/
| rambambram wrote:
| Didn't know that about Pixabay, but very nice. I have been
| looking for music to accompany some videos of mine. In the past I
| used https://www.bensound.com for some nice tunes. Have been
| using Pixabay for ages for beautiful high-res photos. Thanks
| Pixabay!
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