For which purposes may I use Music/SFX bought from the Asset Store for? What's their kind of license

[NeatWolf]

HI,

Today I was speaking with a composer who had the same asset for sale in both the UAS and on his website.

Yet the license in his website said:

- You are granted non-exclusive,
royalty free, rights to the use of
the audio file(s) in as many games
and applications as you wish
(“Product”)
- You are granted the use
of the audio file(s) for promotional
purposes of the Product (e.g. video
trailers)

and nothing else. I sent the composer another email saying that the license in the UAS could be different and had no reply. I also made the following questions (sort of)

May I use a sound assets from the UAS for non-gaming non-unity purposes as well, like in a youtube live video streaming session as a background music, as an intro for selling a light bulb, as the intro of my YouTube Channel? As the background music for a gameplay video of a videogame done by others or for just talking about the weather? To use it as a background music during a conference about airplanes? To use it in a non-Unity game?

Do I need a special agreement with the composer?

(What about other assets, like 3D models or textures?)

I never used it for anything else, but this led me to be uncertain about it.

I’m assuming everything should be licensed as commercial/non exclusive, but please correct me if I’m wrong.

[michaelhartung]

If you bought it from the UAS you don’t need a special agreement with the composer. Everything sold there falls under the UAS Eula [1] (see 1.1.1).

All content published on the Asset Store is provided under the Asset Store EULA. To maintain a consistent experience for our users, products are not allowed to be sold under any unique licenses.

& [2] (see 2.)

Licensor grants to the END-USER a non-exclusive, worldwide, and perpetual license to the Asset to integrate Assets only as incorporated and embedded components of electronic games and interactive media and distribute such electronic game and interactive media. Except for game services software development kits (“Services SDKs”), END-USERS may modify Assets. END-USER may otherwise not reproduce, distribute, sublicense, rent, lease or lend the Assets.

So using it for anything else than in a Unity project is not allowed. But only if the composer sells the same stuff somewhere else under different less restrictive license that might complicate things.

[1] Unity Asset Store Submission Guidelines - Asset Store
[2] Asset Store Terms of Service and EULA

[NeatWolf]

" electronic games and interactive media and distribute such electronic game and interactive media"
Thanks for bringing up the correct parts of the EULA

I believe this does not limit the use of the assets to Unity only tho.

[michaelhartung]

Hmm, right, maybe not Unity. Really depends how you interpret/define “interactive media”.