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Freesounds and youtube monetization
Started December 12th, 2016 · 5 replies · Latest reply by InspectorJ 7 years, 2 months ago
If I use samples from freesound.org and use them in videos which are uploaded on youtube and is enabled for monetization ( which means I can earn money from that video) , how can I give credits to freesounds.org? Please explain.
A quick guide from Freesound's help page can be found here:
http://www.freesound.org/help/faq/#how-do-i-creditattribute
How you credit a sound is usually up to you, but as long as you include these key pieces of information , however you write it is up to you:
You should include:
-Name of the sound
-Name of the user that uploaded it
-The website you downloaded it from (Freesound.org)
-A link to the sound
So for example, something like:
"Toy Garbage Trucks Talking Rubbish" by Bob of Freesound.org (www.freesound.org/somelink)
This does vary and you can phrase it however you want, but this is a very acceptable way to credit a sound from here.
You can then put this in the description of your video, or in a credits roll at the end, or as through a link in the description to a list elsewhere - again, it's up to you.
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I'll quickly mention the licenses that are used on this site just in case you didn't know, as for some you don't need to provide credit if you don't want to.
http://www.freesound.org/help/faq/#what-do-i-need-to-do-to-legally-use-the-files-on-freesound
There are 3 main licenses that sounds on this site can have.
1) Creative Commons 0 License (CC0): This sound is in the public domain and you don't have to credit it at all if you don't want to.
2) Creative Commons Attribution License (CC by 3.0): This sound MUST be given credit if you use it in any way (unless otherwise stated in its description, or the user's homepage).
3) Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License (CC by NC 3.0): This sound MUST be given credit if you use it in any way (same as the previous license) and it CANNOT be used for commercial or monetary gain in any way (again, unless specified in its description).
Hope that helps.
All the best,
InspectorJ
How will I find out to which lisence does the downloaded audio belongs to ?
I need to use these sounds in my youtube video. how will i make sure that it is permitted to use the sound track ?
Kavan@pixelpictures wrote:
How will I find out to which lisence does the downloaded audio belongs to ?
I need to use these sounds in my youtube video. how will i make sure that it is permitted to use the sound track ?
You can check the licenses of sounds you've used by looking on the right-side of their sound page.
E.g. In this sound: http://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/400991/
On the right, just below the 'Download' button, it says "This work is licensed under the Attribution License.". This license means you have to give credit ("attribute") the sound if you use it in a project. You can click on that text to be given the official definition of the "Attribution" license.
You can also check your downloaded sounds by looking on this page which lists the licenses of all the sounds you've downloaded: http://freesound.org/home/attribution/
There are 3 licenses (used to be 4) that this site uses. Two of them will require attribution; the "Attribution" and "Attribution-Non Commercial" license. The former means you simply need to credit the sound. The latter means you need to credit the sound and you can't use it in projects that make money.
The third license is the "0 License" or effectively "Public Domain". You can do whatever you like with this sound, and you don't even need to give credit.
The fourth (now unavailable) license is the "Sampling" license, which does also require attribution, but is very uncommon to find on this site (it is usually with very old sounds).
So as long as you are following the license's terms, you shouldn't run into any legal issues.
You can read more about it here: http://freesound.org/help/faq/#licenses
Hope that helps!