BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

> The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license[1]. So for commercial purposes you need to licence them, as described here[2]: > We provide various options from single downloads you choose ($5) to the entire library on hard drive ($1,995), to annual licensing for multi-user media production companies [1] http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/ [2] https://blog.prosoundeffects.com/how-to-license-bbc-sound-ef...

Silly trivia: the effect they’ve called “Martian Computer 1972” was used in Doctor Who in 1966, without some of the twinkly bits over the top and at a slightly slower speed. Presumably it was reworked for a production in 1972, and so is in the library under that name.

We can leave the whether or not publicly-funded work like this should belong to the public (no not the Crown) so I understand that this is theirs to license how they see fit... but this license stinks. It's non-commercial. It has huge moral use clauses. It basically limits your use to the same standards the BBC is required to keep at broadcast. And you have to give a credit. And you can't use too much of it (lest somebody think…