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Hello my name is Barbos Radu,im from Romania,im an amateur dj and music producer,i only use free and open source music making software,i have sent an email before but i dont quite understand the rules.I wanth to know if its legall to use the samples,loops and acapellas on this website to make comercial music,what do i have to do to make it legal,i want to sell on royalty free music sites,i dont quite understand all the regulations on your website,im from Romania and english is not my language,do i have to follow wath each member says they claim if i use their work from their posts ! Sorry for disturbing and thank you !
All the Best

Barbos Radu
Romania,Timisoara

Please , no one nothing ?

To keep it safe and simple for you:

Do not use sounds with this licence: http://www.freesound.org/media/images/licenses/bync.png and this text: This work is licensed under the Attribution Noncommercial License.
These sounds are for non-commercial use.

You can use all other sounds but;
You have to thank freesound.org and the freesound user(s) for the sounds you use in a text-file that is connected to the song you record.
It is very nice if you list the link to the sounds.

so it looks like this:

Thanks freesound.org and
user klankbeeld
http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/184520/
http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/184349/
and user unfa
http://www.freesound.org/people/unfa/sounds/184590/
for the sounds I have used in my song.

klankbeeld Thank you for your kind reply, but still if that kind of samples that are not for commercial use can be used in making a song and making it available as a free download mentioning freesound.org and the users right ! For all others they can be used for making commercial songs , and i will mentiuon freesound.org and the users right ! Further more i want your help in determining witch signs are the ones showing a sample is for comerial use and witch are not from CC creative comons !
Thank you and all the best,sorry for my enlish !

http://www.freesound.org/media/images/licenses/by.png ("Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License" or "CC-BY") allows commercial use,
http://www.freesound.org/media/images/licenses/bync.png ("Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License" or "CC-BY-NC") prohibits commercial use.

Hi thanks for asking your questions,

Please visit these pages and at the bottom click the best language for you to understand:
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/

These are the different licenses in use. There are different licenses published by the Creative Commons, which are an organization, not just one license. Be warned that these are only summaries, you need to click "Legal Code (the full license)" to see the actual license.

You can filter search results by license. See the search sidebar.

You can find some info on http://www.freesound.org/help/faq/#licenses

Thnak you verry much,but i saw a sign an M in a circle from creative commons,what is that ?

djradu wrote:
Thnak you verry much,but i saw a sign an M in a circle from creative commons,what is that ?

http://www.morguefile.com/archive/#/?q=music click on a photo and that M will apear but i gues its the sites logo and not CC related :-?

djradu wrote:
not CC related :-?