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Hello, I use imovie on Macbook air. Can I use my own videos created in imovie, to which I have added jingles, transitions and text in imovie, for commercial purposes and share these videos on social networks? Thank you for your response.
You can read the iMovie licence, if you launch iMovie and go to the menu "iMovie > About iMovie". Click the button "Licence Agreement".
Look at section 2. Permitted Use and restrictions, paragraph G. iMovie Features and Support.
"The Apple Software contains media content including but not limited to graphics, audio clips, video clips and/or templates (“Media Content”). This Media Content is proprietary to Apple and/or its licensors, and is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws, including but not limited to copyright. Except as otherwise provided, all Media Content included in the Apple Software may be used on a royalty-free basis in your own video projects but may not be distributed on a standalone basis (and audio Media Content may only be used for your own personal, non-commercial use)."
As you can see, the use of the audio Media content is restricted to your own personal, non-commercial use.
For commercial purposes I would use GarageBand and not iMovie to create the soundtrack for your video. The GarageBand licence is different and allows commercial use, see: Using royalty-free loops in GarageBand with commercial work - Apple Support
You can read the iMovie licence, if you launch iMovie and go to the menu "iMovie > About iMovie". Click the button "Licence Agreement".
Look at section 2. Permitted Use and restrictions, paragraph G. iMovie Features and Support.
"The Apple Software contains media content including but not limited to graphics, audio clips, video clips and/or templates (“Media Content”). This Media Content is proprietary to Apple and/or its licensors, and is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws, including but not limited to copyright. Except as otherwise provided, all Media Content included in the Apple Software may be used on a royalty-free basis in your own video projects but may not be distributed on a standalone basis (and audio Media Content may only be used for your own personal, non-commercial use)."
As you can see, the use of the audio Media content is restricted to your own personal, non-commercial use.
For commercial purposes I would use GarageBand and not iMovie to create the soundtrack for your video. The GarageBand licence is different and allows commercial use, see: Using royalty-free loops in GarageBand with commercial work - Apple Support
I'm not sure what is different but Final Cut Pro X allows the use of Apple loops for commercial purposes (as long as you don't sell the loops themselves). Some of the sound effects are the same as iMovie.
As you can read there:
,,This Media Content is proprietary to Apple and/or its licensors, and is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws, including but not limited to copyright. Except as otherwise provided, all Media Content included in the Apple Software may be used on a royalty-free basis in your own video projects but may not be distributed on a standalone basis (and audio Media Content may only be used for your own personal, non-commercial use)."
Im using sound effect in my own content only as a background music, not stand alone. On the other side I have read in another topic that I can use it this way. Can you answer me on this? Thank you for your time
Interesting. I did not know that the FCPX license agreement was more permissive than iMovie's regarding use of Sample Content.
-- Rich
can I use iMovie for commercial purposes?
