So you almost certainly can’t sample the parrot and even upload the result to SoundCloud.Ĭorrection: Jake Berger from the BBC writes to clarify that derivative works are allowed if they comply with the non-commercial requirement (and attribution). “Personal” use implies you can sample the sounds, so long as no one else hears your remix, which rather defeats the point.
Non-commercial use itself suggests you need to have a site that not only has no ads (like this one does), but may even explicitly have some educational purpose. That is, your parrot track is out, even if you plan to give it away. There’s no explicit allowance for derivative works, which rules out even “non-commercial” sampling. If you want, you can wade through the murky terms, which seem to be written for schoolchildren in terms of language level, but oddly evasive about what it is you’re actually allowed to do: The catch is, you’re probably thinking of downloading those files and making a Deep House track with the parrot. Right now the sound of a parrot is trending: (There’s a reason English is dotted with obscure boat-related idioms like saying someone is “two sheets to the wind” when they’re drunk.)Īnd it’s good fun. If you just want to listen to some interesting sounds, you can stream or download WAV files of sounds ranging from “‘Pystyll Rhadn’ falls, North Wales, with birdsong” to lorries, and, this being England, lots of exotic sounds from the far reaches of the former British Empire and a bunch of business to do with ships. I know this, because I used what I believe is the edition of this that was once released on a big series of CDs. There’s both synthetic sound design and field recording work – sometimes not really identified as such. This is a sound effects library culled from the archives of the BBC and its Radiophonic Workshop, a selection of sounds dug up from broadcast sound work. The BBC Sound Effects site offering has gotten plenty of online sharing.
Whatever the reason, BBC’s 16,000 sound effects are available to download – but with strings attached.
Maybe it’s time for the idea of a “commons” to get a new boost.
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