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On a guitar forum I belong to, I just found out that the BBC is giving free access to their catalog of over 16,000 sound effects.

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

Excellent resource kenact.

Don't forget to read copyright and terms of use.

Also useful to trigger, focus, emulate or inspire ideas when you want to make your own (copyright free) sounds. (Must admit that's mostly what I use Freesound for. Thanks everyone.)

Wibby

Wonderful resource, but as Wibby said, it's probably better for inspiration. The copyright is slightly confusing as the front page says "only for personal, educational, or research purposes", which is weird since (theoretically) that's what we already have the legal right to under the "fair use" doctrine. (Perhaps they don't have that in the UK?)

If you click on the link to read the actual "licence", it takes you to the RemArc Project's Terms of Use, which has additional restrictions (for example, no "harmful or offensive purposes", "Don't mess with our content", no promoting "pornography, tobacco, or weapons", and "Don't associate our content with advertising or sponsorship").

While not unreasonable, you'd have more rights if you just ignored their license and used their content as provided for by Fair Use for your own personal, educational, or research purposes.

I do appreciate that the BBC took the time to make the sounds available, but I wish they had used a more liberal license, such as the Open Government License that the UK's National Archives uses. That license is compatible with Creative Commons Attribution, so we could actually use and remix the BBC sounds instead of just listening to them.

tken u! very much

Very valuable archive