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Hello,

I am an animator for a large company.

All of my work remains within the company, is not sold or used for monetary gains in any way, and is prefaced with a "For Internal Use Only" slide. It is strictly for the exchange of ideas between employees.

I would like to add some music to these animations.

What are the copyright considerations for animations/presentation that will not be displayed outside the company nor will it sold or used for monetary gains?

Thank you in advance for your help.

(Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor part of the Freesound staff)

Creative Commons Zero, Sampling, Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike licensed material is all fine as long as the license terms are abided by (attribution given where required and so forth).

As for NonCommercial, I would consider your internal company use not to fall under that clause. Quoting the definition from CC:

NonCommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation. For purposes of this Public License, the exchange of the Licensed Material for other material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights by digital file-sharing or similar means is NonCommercial provided there is no payment of monetary compensation in connection with the exchange.

Since your co-workers aren’t paying to access the slides, and they are for internal use (which doesn’t appear to fall under the definition of ‘sharing to the public’ according to Creative Commons: “[making] material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them”) I would contend that just about everything using the above CC elements is just fine for the use you are intending.

I guess its not free.

This is more complex than you think. It is a semi-commercial use. Even it it is for internal use in the company, a company makes indirectly money out of the use of the animation.

Therefore I think it is a great idea to ask permission to the freesound users you use the sounds of that have a attribution and non-commercial license. In these kind of use I always sugest the company spend a 'voluntary' donation to freesound.org.

Regards