I just want to be extra sure that I understand licensing correctly. I’m looking at creating a series of videos for a client that they will be selling and sharing online for their business. I’d like to offer the option to include a piece of music from Envato Elements for the series as part of the intro and outro for each video. Is this allowed? I understand I can use one standard license for 52 of these videos within a series within one year, but I’m just not clear on if they would be allowed to sell those videos if they have that music in them. Thanks!
Thank you for your reply. After reading the article, there’s still something that I’m still not clear on:
If I license a piece of music from Envato Elements for a client’s video series, such as intro music to be used on each video, are they allowed to sell those videos that include that licensed piece of music?
To clarify the link above, the “series” (1 year / 52 episodes) coverage is specific to a Standard Licence purchased through Envato Market (for example, a track from AudioJungle or a video opener from VideoHive).
For items licensed via an Envato Elements subscription, things work a bit differently. There is no “series” equivalent there, so you’d need to register a licence for each video separately. As it’s an unlimited subscription there are no additional costs, but that ensures that the authors are credited (and paid!) appropriately for the use of their items.
For your question, if you are creating the video for a client, and just giving them the option of which intro and outro music is used, you should be fine. You can’t re-sell individual assets (e.g. redistributing just the audio track), but you can produce and sell a video that uses those assets.
You can use an Item to create an End Product for yourself or for a client. If you use an Item to create an End Product for a client, then you can transfer the End Product to your client as long as you have followed the requirements in clause 3 and your subscription remains active.
Each video that you produce is a single End Product, and you can transfer that to your client as long as you have an active Elements subscription.
However, I’m not sure how the licence would cover that client going on to sell the videos to customers themselves.
I recommend opening a support ticket with Envato Elements Help and Support - that way you can get a definitive answer from our license experts, specific to the way you and your clients intend to use the videos.
