LICENSING
Rare timbres, licensed on terms the community set.
For producers and sound designers: the archive holds instruments you will not find in a sample library. What you can license, and on what terms, is decided by the communities the recordings came from — not by us.
0 instruments currently licensable
Commercial licensing requires a consent record whose scope explicitly includes commercial use. No instrument in the archive has one yet, so there is nothing to sell and no waiting list to join. This page describes the terms that will apply when there is.
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Revenue is shared with source communities
A fixed majority share of any licence fee goes to the community credited on the recording, paid through an agreement brokered with PACOS Trust rather than at our discretion. The split is written into the consent record, not decided per deal.
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Commercial scope is opt-in, per instrument
A community granting the archive permission has not granted commercial permission. Those are separate scopes on the consent record, and the absence of a scope is a denial of it.
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Attribution is a licence condition, not a courtesy
Any release using this material must credit the named performer and community. The credit travels in the file's metadata, so there is no version of the asset that has lost it.
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No training rights
Licences do not grant permission to train generative models on this material. Sabah's instruments are not a dataset, and a model that can imitate a sompoton is not a sompoton.
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Withdrawal ends future licensing
If a community withdraws consent, the material is removed from the archive and no new licences are issued. Existing licensees are notified; we will not pretend a withdrawal did not happen.