Are there really safe and legal resources for sound effects to use in applications?
- by mystify
For those who want to opt for "close" immediately:
Great user interfaces need great sound effects, right?
User interfaces are programmed by programmers, right?
So this is a programming question, ok?
I had a very hard time to find good and legal sound resources. I am not looking for free sounds. Proper licensing is absolutely crucial, and I don't want to get sued by multibilliondollar music companies, hollywood sound studios and their highly overpaid lawyers. They cry about people downloading their stuff in file sharing sites but when someone comes and wants to really license stuff, the market is so empty like an open and unwatched gold mine.
Trust me, whatever I type into google, I always end up getting sort of opaque and strange music libraries that do charge money, but refuse to provide proper licensing evidence to the licensee. When you pay money and they only count how many files you downloaded, that can never be a valid license, nor any evidence for you that you did license the sounds. Imagine that contributor suing you and you say: "I licensed it at xy", and his lawyer just smiles: "Show me proof, mofo!". So you loose a million dollars, or 1 for every downloaded app. Congrats.
But that's the way all those "hey we're the worlds largest sound effect library" libraries are doing it.
It's really annoying. And I hope someone here is able to point out a sound effects ressource which is
A) big
B) used by professinals
C) has a reasonable pricing and licensing model
D) provides the licensee with proper legal evidence about licensed sounds
You know, I'm not from the US and typically you US folks are the ones who invent the cool stuff on the net, and maybe I just missed a new great start up. So?
