[HN Gopher] Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (pixabay.com) (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! | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-08 23:00 UTC)