Legal Sounds? Freesound
The last time I posted, I brought the Open Media Directory to your attention. One particular site not listed there is the Freesound Project. Freesound is basically an online collection of samples under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 license. Freesound summarizes the license best:
The samples are all tagged, and therefore can be easily searched. Want bird sounds? Search birds. Want talking? Search talking. The site is full of samples that run the gamut from obscure, super-processed alien fish garble to plain, unadulterated field recordings of nature hikes. If you're looking for it, Freesound likely has it. The best thing is, you can preview the individual files right there on the search page. Simple.
Lastly, if you want to contribute, you can. Freesound wants you to become a contributing member. You sign up, upload your files, tag them, and release them to the world (kind of like studying an endangered species, no?). Just make sure you don't upload anything you don't own the copyright to. Savvy?
This means that if you use the files you need to attribute the creator of the file (i.e. say who made it).While this doesn't mean you can use these files in an advertisement, it means you can use the files in your audio/video work as long as you attribute the file's creator. Freesound makes this process easy to do, as they provide you with a set of guidelines to follow for attribution.
The samples are all tagged, and therefore can be easily searched. Want bird sounds? Search birds. Want talking? Search talking. The site is full of samples that run the gamut from obscure, super-processed alien fish garble to plain, unadulterated field recordings of nature hikes. If you're looking for it, Freesound likely has it. The best thing is, you can preview the individual files right there on the search page. Simple.
Lastly, if you want to contribute, you can. Freesound wants you to become a contributing member. You sign up, upload your files, tag them, and release them to the world (kind of like studying an endangered species, no?). Just make sure you don't upload anything you don't own the copyright to. Savvy?
2 Comments:
Hmmm, I read an interesting article in the current issue of Maisonneuve about copyrighted footage that documentary filmmakers use, and ways around it. The summary can be found at: http://maisonneuve.org/index.php?&page_id=12&article_id=2655)
I couldn't read the rest as I don't subscribe to the print edition. What did it say as for the ways around it?
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