Freesound has obtained a Mid Level Grant awarded by the Grant for the Web initiative to promote building monetization tools, and conducting research into how Web Monetization can benefit specific communities.

With this grant we will start the new project Freesound Licensing, a platform to help content creators monetize their sounds by re-licensing them to content users that need usage rights beyond those allowed by the sounds' original CC restrictions.

Grant for the Web is a $100M fund to boost open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation in Web Monetization. Grant for the Web is funded and led by Coil, working in collaboration with founding collaborators Mozilla and Creative Commons.

Media coverage:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/upf--fit011921.php