Sound Effects Library End User License Agreements

[Maskeeper]

So, it seems the standard for allowing redistribution of purchased sound effects is that the effects have to be "synchronized in time relation to the production" - essentially allowing you to use them in the finished mix, but not to distribute the individual files.

In the era of Pro Tools: does delivering a complete session to a client still qualify as a legal distribution of the licensed effects- since it is technically sync, but also contains all the individual files? I wondered if anyone had ever had an problems, had questioned Sound Ideas or other companies about this...

I've traditionally steered clients away from taking PT sessions -- instead providing reasonable break-out stems, but with clients more often looking to archive mix session- wondered if this had come up...

[jeremiahmoore]

A lot of editors consolidate a bunch or regions, or even whole tracks, and deliver PT sessions that way.

(Of course in doing so, you lose the ability to rework the cuts. Which could be a real pain for, say, backgrounds conform. )

-jeremiah