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Stephen Downes

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It's great to have access to this library of sound effects in a reusable .wav format (though I wish I could download them all at once instead of searching through their library each time). What was most interesting (aside from the effects themselves) was the BBC's use of a RemArc license (instead of, say, Creative Commons). Some sources immediately labeled this as "bad news" because of, for example, a "licence that prohibits using these files in commercial work." Additionally, you can't use the content "for harmful or offensive purposes" and you can't use it to pretend that you are, or are endorsed by, the BBC. This leaves personal and private use wide open, which works for me. Unrelated: internet book image archives with 52 million free-to-use images.

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