steven bolar

9 minutes ago, Patrick Derbidge said:

Actually, they've clarified their policy on the forums a while back stating you can email them for permission and they will give it. Somehow they think this kind of strategy will cut down on abuse but it's still a flawed model and also the reason I stay away. Who wants the extra hassle? It's not as if I know I'm going to use their stuff until I start experimenting and composing at which point what a waste of my time if there's even the slightest chance they don't give me permission when I could've been using other samples in my work all along.

I can clarify this even further.  They did change the whole request for "special use" a while ago too.  you don't need to do that for Big Fish Branded products anymore, as you can see from the license agreement on this product: https://www.bigfishaudio.com/detail.html?532268.   The specific license agreement you posted John is only on a small collection of old Funk Soul Productions products.  Seriously look around at the big fish branded products a bit and you'll see none of them say that if they aren't funk soul productions.   Their new standard license agreement is posted that allows for music library use without needing to request any special use extras.

53 minutes ago, John Bohlen said:

Meh... it looks similar to the Loopcloud plugin. I don't use Big Fish Audio loop libraries since they explicitly forbid their usage in the creation of music libraries in their license. Bad business.

John you can use their loops in a music library.  This is the only mention of a music library in their license agreement:

   If you use this product in the creation of a music library, or music intended to be included in a music library catalog, you cannot use the demonstration mix track files or recreate the demonstration mix track, you can only use the other files to create a derivative musical work.