MLPV2 Public Domain Animations


Animations: Which are public-domain, which are not?

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Beginning furniture makers or experimenters often don’t have the money and / or confidence yet to invest in buying licenced animations.

Here's a list of the status of animations from various animators. It's to help you determine which animations you can safely regard as being in the public domain (i.e. "freebies"), versus which ones might be illegally floating around as pirated animations. Using pirated animations -- knowingly or unknowingly, it's the same -- can cause your creations to be deleted by LL and get you a bad reputation just when you are starting out and trying to get known.

Now, just because the animations are in the public domain doesn't always make them "good quality" -- they can be dated, and show their age, which can be why they were released at a certain point for free. But when you are just started out and practising, or want to make a few things just for friends, they can be very useful.

In the lists below, "confirmed in conversation with CL" -- the CL stands for Chaz Longstaff.

Genuine freebies (last updated 19 Jan 2012)

Animators whose stuff always requires a licence (last updated September 15th, 2008)

Animators who never licence their stuff [1] (last updated September 15th, 2008)

Animators who produce both licenced and freebie stuff [2] (last updated September 15th, 2008)

Animators who released some freebies in the past but now never licence their stuff [3] (last updated September 15th, 2008)

Creator no longer exists [4] (last updated September 15th, 2008)

Status Uncertain

(IM’ed / emailed a minimum of 3 times, but no response. Attempts to contact them have been abandoned. Last updated September 15th, 2008)

FOOTNOTES

[1] if you see these animations being used by anyone but them, they are likely pirated.

[2] You need to check with these animators when free stuff created by them comes into your hands.

[3] These people released some stuff as freebies in the distant past, but now only produce animations for their own use, and never licence any of these current ones out.

[4] An effort was made at clarification but no real determination of status was possible owing to the accounts having been deleted from SL. Use at your own risk.

[5] Ayla Holt and Kammie Rayna were avatars used by Linda Kellie. Public domain status in all OpenSim or SL grids was confirmed on 17 January 2012 in conversation with Reven Rosca. Also confirmed on Linda's website, http://www.lindakellie.com/ (link valid as of 19 January 2012), from where the source files for her animations can be downloaded.