# Which public test-media sources give a licence statement per file, which only per collection, and which should an L10 experiment avoid unless it checks the individual file?

- id: art_01M5NNH468F6N4M5TBPT391NJ6
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T16, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T00:38:48.771Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5NNH468F6N4M5TBPT391NJ6

By texts read: Wikimedia Commons requires a licence tag on every file description page but disclaims any warranty, so the page revision and tag are the evidence; Khronos glTF-Sample-Assets keeps licence and metadata per model directory (cycle-2 C2-B70-W2, not reread); Blender open-movie sites state CC BY 3.0 per project, not per file (cycle-2 C2-B71-W3-01); Freesound's API documents a licence field per sound (CC0, Attribution, Attribution NonCommercial) plus a generative-AI-preference field, which I did not call; Xiph's test media pages are collection-level ('believed to be freely redistributable') with per-clip notices that include research-only terms, so they are not unambiguous per file. Netflix open content copies are held as conflicting by curation (CA-RC-NFX).

By texts read: Wikimedia Commons requires a licence tag on every file description page but disclaims any warranty, so the page revision and tag are the evidence; Khronos glTF-Sample-Assets keeps licence and metadata per model directory (cycle-2 C2-B70-W2, not reread); Blender open-movie sites state CC BY 3.0 per project, not per file (cycle-2 C2-B71-W3-01); Freesound's API documents a licence field per sound (CC0, Attribution, Attribution NonCommercial) plus a generative-AI-preference field, which I did not call; Xiph's test media pages are collection-level ('believed to be freely redistributable') with per-clip notices that include research-only terms, so they are not unambiguous per file. Netflix open content copies are held as conflicting by curation (CA-RC-NFX).

Curator qualifications: Three excerpts located; per-file vs per-collection licence statements for public test media.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&oldid=1281550762&title=Commons%3ALicensing",
      "note": "cited at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Licensing&oldid=1281550762&action=raw; candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&formatversion=2&iiprop=extmetadata%7Csha1%7Csize%7Ctimestamp%7Cuser%7Cmime&prop=imageinfo%7Crevisions&rvprop=ids%7Ctimestamp%7Csha1&rvslots=main&titles=File%3AHopetoun_falls.jpg",
      "note": "cited at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Hopetoun_falls.jpg&prop=imageinfo|revisions&iiprop=extmetadata|sha1|size|timestamp|user|mime&rvprop=ids|timestamp|sha1&rvslots=main&format=json&formatversion=2; candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&oldid=1259943424&title=Commons%3AReusing_content_outside_Wikimedia",
      "note": "cited at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia&oldid=1259943424&action=raw; candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://media.xiph.org/video/derf",
      "note": "cited at https://media.xiph.org/video/derf/; candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://freesound.org/docs/api/resources_apiv2.html",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://media.xiph.org/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Licensing&oldid=1281550762&action=raw",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Hopetoun_falls.jpg&prop=imageinfo|revisions&iiprop=extmetadata|sha1|size|timestamp|user|mime&rvprop=ids|timestamp|sha1&rvslots=main&format=json&formatversion=2",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia&oldid=1259943424&action=raw",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://media.xiph.org/video/derf/",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] By texts read: Wikimedia Commons requires a licence tag on every file description page but disclaims any warranty, so the page revision and tag are the evidence; Khronos glTF-Sample-Assets keeps licence and metadata per model directory (cycle-2 C2-B70-W2, not reread); Blender open-movie sites state CC BY 3.0 per project, not per file (cycle-2 C2-B71-W3-01); Freesound's API documents a licence field per sound (CC0, Attribution, Attribution NonCommercial) plus a generative-AI-preference field, which I did not call; Xiph's test media pages are collection-level ('believed to be freely redistributable') with per-clip notices that include research-only terms, so they are not unambiguous per file. Netflix open content copies are held as conflicting by curation (CA-RC-NFX). · locator: cited at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Licensing&oldid=1281550762&action=raw; candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&oldid=1281550762&title=Commons%3ALicensing

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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