Licences
A scene's licence says what other people may do with it: remix it, take its parts into their own scenes, pass the file on, show it in a video. Nobody sells wallpapers on Motion Hub, so a licence here is about reuse and credit, not money.
You choose it in Studio, on the Publish page's Licence card, and it goes with the scene wherever it goes: in its .motion file and on Motion Hub. You can change it on the Hub too: on the scene's page, Edit details, then Licence, pictures, who sees it.
The presets
Most people pick one of these. Each has a line on the card saying what it means, and where it matches a Creative Commons licence, the card names it.
| Preset | What others may do | Creative Commons |
|---|---|---|
| Personal use only (the default) | Use it as their wallpaper and show it in videos. No remixes, no reuse, no reposting. | None: like "all rights reserved" |
| Remix with credit | Remix it and reuse its parts, naming you. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Remix, credit, same terms | As above, and remixes must keep this licence. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Remix with credit, not for commercial use | As above, and nobody uses it commercially. | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| Free for anything | Anything at all, without even naming you. | CC0 1.0 |
Studio shows the licence you chose in one line above the cards, such as "Others may remix it, reuse its parts and pass the file on with credit".
Where a preset names a Creative Commons licence, that licence's own legal code is what applies; the line on the card only sums it up.
Custom…
Custom… shows each permission and condition as a tickbox, to set one by one. Motion Hub shows them by the short names below.
Others may:
- Remix: publish a changed version on Motion Hub. It links back to yours.
- Reuse parts: take its pictures, models, sounds, scripts or shaders into their own scenes.
- Pass the file on: pass the unchanged
.motionfile on outside the Hub. - In videos: show it running in videos and streams, including ones that earn money, as long as the scene itself isn't what's being sold. Every preset allows this.
As long as:
- Credit: remixes and reused parts name you.
- Same terms: remixes keep this licence.
- Not commercial: nobody uses it commercially outside the Hub.
Changing it later
You can change a scene's licence whenever you like, but the new one applies only to downloads from then on: people who already have a version keep what its licence gave them. Creative Commons licences and CC0 can't be taken back, so a version you withdraw that was under one of them keeps working for the people who have it. The Terms say more.
Work by others
A scene can include something you didn't make: a font, a piece of music, a picture. On the Licence card, under Work by others, click Add a file, pick the file from the scene, and say who made it, where it's from and its licence.
Those files keep their own terms, whatever your scene's licence says. "Reuse parts" never covers them, and the scene's page on Motion Hub lists them under Includes work by others, with a link to where each came from.
Fonts are checked as well: a font whose maker restricts embedding can't go out in a scene at all.
Bringing in a part of someone else's scene
When you bring a file into your scene from one you downloaded from Motion Hub, Studio checks that scene's licence. If it lets others reuse its parts, the file comes in and Studio records the credit for you under Work by others: who made it, a link to their scene, and the licence. If it doesn't, or the file is someone else's work that scene only includes, Studio says so and leaves the file out.
What the Hub enforces, and what's on trust
Motion Hub enforces some of a licence itself:
- Remix: the Hub refuses to publish a remix of a scene whose licence doesn't allow one. A remix also has to start from a download of the scene, signed in.
- Same terms: a remix of a scene with "same terms" must have the same licence. Studio sets it for you; anything else is refused.
- Credit: a remix's page always names the scene it came from and its maker, and both pages show their licence.
The rest is on trust, as with any licence: passing the file on, reusing parts outside Studio, showing it in videos and commercial use all happen away from the Hub, where it can't see them. If you find your work used against its licence, report the scene on its page.
Last changed 2 November 2026. Something wrong here? Tell us.