Loads of free sounds

I ran across this site the other day. It has 10000+ free sound clips. They are all licensed under the Creative Commons sampling license. This seems to mean you can use the sounds for whatever you like except ads. And you have to provide a link to attribute it.

Lots of junk but there are some beauties in there.

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Thanks for the link, Essence. That's a definite bookmark.

Would it be worth while setting up a repository for sounds (and textures etc) which are free for use under such a license? Perhaps have a drop-off point for sounds and each month a box is made of all the new sounds which have been uploaded to sl and are free under the creative commons license. The box would be free to all (or $1 which goes towards land / uploads).

That would be useful, also similarly licensed BVH-es converted to animations?

Sounds like a job for Superman^WYadni.

Yadni's Junkyard is such a repository. There are boxes of sounds, textures, animations, objects, etc. At L$1 per box. I think Yadni is still collecting and boxing stuff. TM

yadni's STILL doin that? wow, I thought he quit

I checked out the freesound page. Looks good. But compliance with the creative commons license might be more of a problem than in obvious. If you give the content to someone else, you are not only obliged to give the attribution, but also to communicate the license restriction to the other person. Of course, that is necessary or the other person would treat the content as public domain.

If you were to put a sound on the web or offer it freely in SL (free to copy), you might not meet the terms of the license. You might make the attribution and license terns clear, but you would not have any agreement from the recipient to comply with the license. I use the following source for misc. sounds. They do not check copyright, but will remove links at the owner's request. So I assune there is no copyright claim on their links.

http://www.findsounds.com/

Don't know where you got that idea. Voted best for freebies in Sept Metaverse messenger. I just checked it. Lots of boxes of free stuff. Sign says welcomes more. TM

If you added the license to the box, say a touch hands it out in notecard form, and added something like "Your purchase of this product affirms your compliance with this license" would that cover all the bases?

I think something like that woubl be an adequate legal protection. Actially, though, I think there is almost no chance that anyone would be sued for infringement under any likely use in SL. If you take a ten second clip from a two minute file, you could argue that is "fair use." I checked that issue at
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
and found that there is no clear definition of "fair use" but a small fraction of the whole is an important element.

But I value the creative commons license and would not want to violate it even if I could get away with it. Beyond that, if people are generous enough to give me their work, I would not want to be using it in ways they consider beyond the terms of the agreement.

Part of the issue is being discussed in the freesound forum under the heading:
Should be titled unfreesounds - Caution users

I will post my concerns on freesound forum, along with proposed solutions. I would hope to get responses from some of the contributors. The problem arises, I think, because the creative commons license is not well suited to audio and even less suited to non-musical audio. TM

I have another solution, because I hate thinking that 10+ SL residents will upload the same exact soundclips into SL, wasting more than just money. How about a Resources link on the LSL Wiki front page that would offer texture and sound keys. Anyone wishing to offer textures and sounds could place the key within the resources page, along with their name, usage policy, and their name.

I realize there is already a short list of built-in texture keys on the LSL wiki, and those have been very useful to me. Listing a few common sound keys would be a great bonus.

I posted this plan on the Freesounds BB. The administrator's respnse seems to indicate that this would be approptiate, even though suibsequent users might leave out the acknowledgement. TM

I think a resources link on the wiki would be a great service. Actually, I did not know that there were such keys (and did not find them with a cursory search). I am guessing, however, that they are the same things that were in my library when I signed on. But a searchable wiki would be more helpful. What would be the next step in doing this? TM