Commercial use of Final Cut Pro from bundle for education

No.

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/FinalCutProX.pdf

§2. I:

… to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software …

AFAIK the terms of non-commercial only apply to the software itself not to content created from using the software. So you can create a movie and charge admission to see it or to monetize the viewing of it. This applies to both the standard license and to the educational versions.

This is also true when creating music from GarageBand or Logic... or slideshows, etc…. Apple also gives royalty free usage of things like sound files, but retains the rights to the actual loops/sound files.

In other words, you cannot sell (commercial usage) the software or the sound files themselves, as repackaged, stand alone software/sounds, but you can use the software/files in a project/movie that is a commercial project.

Otherwise there would be no movies, songs ever sold that are produced using Apple products.

Hope this helps, Greg

The educational and regular version both have the same license agreement clause:

The Final Cut Pro X license agreement states:

“…you have the right to use the Apple Software as permitted by the Mac App Store Product Usage Rules set forth in the App Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“Usage Rules”), and are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license:

“(i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running OS X (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control…

“(ii) if you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, to download, install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software for use either: (a) by a single individual on each of the Mac Computer(s) that you own or control, or (b) by multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or control. For example, a single employee may use the Apple Software on both the employee’s desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer, or multiple students may serially use the Apple Software on a single Mac Computer located at a resource center or library.”

So, you can't use the educational version for selling video to clients, and I guess that goes the same for the regular (full paid) version as well? Doesn't make sense to buy the full version if you can't sell the videos created.

That isn’t specific to the education version, but has always been the wording for the FCP license and has always been ignored.

The license for FCP has been unchanged since 1999. The clause has been completely ignored and no letter of it has ever been enforced.

I'm not a lawyer, but have always read

“(i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running OS X (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control…

as meaning you can't download a copy of FCP-X to a laptop you own, or for that matter 10 copies to 10 laptops you own and then rent the copy out as a business.

FWIW, that's my understanding of "non-commercial use".

MtD