Copyright-free music in Adobe Express (for commercial use)

[Emanuel5FC4]

Hi!

I am wondering if the music inside Adobe Express is safe to use for us as a rather large enterprise / business?We do not want to have any copyright issues. We would want to add music to videos that we post on all kind of social platforms, for example Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc.

[kglad]

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[kglad · Accepted solution]

yes, all adobe products can be used for commercial purposes, https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html

[siobhán_0690]

I uploaded a short on my educational website and had it blocked for the music I used from Adobe Express. I was under the impression it was royalty free. Aparently it is not? What should I do ?

[LeslieABanks]

This just happened to me also with 2 videos on YouTube. I was also under the impression that with premium Adobe membership we had rights to use music clips in videos. Youtube claim says it is for shorts only (under 60 seconds) and both of these blocked videos are a over 60 seconds. (One is 1:06, the other is 1:32). I am disputing the claims, because of what I saw here, but maybe there is fine print somewhere that I can't find?

[Emanuel5FC4]

@kglad Any answers for this above?

[thejanebradbury]

As a general rule @kglad is correct; assets used in Adobe Express have a limited license for commercial use. https://stock.adobe.com/uk/license-terms#limitedLicenses

All the uses described in this post should be fine as far as copyright goes, but there are always exceptions. 

@siobhán_0690 what was the exact reason for the block? Does the website have rules that prohibit using music from anywhere, not just Adobe Stock? Any website could still block music for reasons of their own, and Adobe Express having commercially safe music won't change that. You could still follow the steps below to check the asset ID for the musci and provide it for proof. 

@LeslieABanks if YouTube are challenging your music find the asset ID in Adobe Express and send it to them for proof. You can find it by clicking the audio track and in the Audio panel clicking the 3 dots.

 

Now click Source info to get the details of the clip.

 

Here's one thing that throw a spanner in the works; contributors sometimes remove their work from Adobe Stock and that means it won't be licensed for use any longer. 

Adobe Express is supposed to show us red (images) or grey (audio) icons if an asset is no longer available. But it's not always obvious; I've not seen one yet! Often the only way to know is if you get a download failed message.

If you use the method above to find the Source info of an asset, you can use that Asset ID# at the https://stock.adobe.com/ site to see if the asset is still available. 

[siobhán_0690]

Thanks for that I checked it out . 

https://stock.adobe.com/es/search/audio?keywords=just+lost+everything+&moods=Sad&search_type=usertyp...

and it has come up as free. It is still listed on the stocks . I ll check all my muscic from now on. Thanks for the tip. I think other people have had similiar isssues 

I had to videos on both my channels blocked over this song.