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Havok:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 11, 2008, 02:10:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: rrcade on March 11, 2008, 12:54:27 am ---Everyone here has full sets of Roms...........Don't tell me you are Legally entitled to own and play every game.......Get off your high horse.

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That's not true.  Some of us do not have MAME cabs and don't use emulators.

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And will those four people please stand up now?

 >:D

MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: ahofle on March 11, 2008, 07:06:51 pm ---If it makes any of you feel better about stealing music from evil corporations, RCA stole my arcade ambience sounds for Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" video. 

Her video (first 10-15 seconds):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cQ25-glGRzI

The 1983 'sample' track they used without permission:
http://arcade.hofle.com/arcade/arcade83sample.mp3

:laugh2:

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Are you being serious about that? There is at least one section of the audio where it is obviously the same as your 1983 sample track. From 5 seconds to 9 seconds on the video there are two distinctive types of sounds that are the same as the first 4 seconds of your sample track. How did you make that audio?

Edit: It does seem to be completely the same, starting at about the 5 second mark when they enter the building until the music starts at the 14 second mark; it parallels the first 9 seconds of your sample track. Even the first 4 seconds before they enter the building seems to be part of that sample track, but at a reduced volume.

Havok:

--- Quote from: ahofle on March 11, 2008, 07:06:51 pm ---If it makes any of you feel better about stealing music from evil corporations, RCA stole my arcade ambience sounds for Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" video. 

Her video (first 10-15 seconds):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cQ25-glGRzI

The 1983 'sample' track they used without permission:
http://arcade.hofle.com/arcade/arcade83sample.mp3

:laugh2:

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Perhaps they got permission from the truecopyright holders? After all, those aren't your original sounds...

There's been plenty of musicians that got caught sampling other artists music, and passing it off as their own. Since they did have to pay restitution, I can only surmise that their work was not considered legal, so sampling someone else's work and mixing it your way does not necessarily make it yours now...

MaximRecoil:

--- Quote from: Havok on March 11, 2008, 09:58:29 pm ---Perhaps they got permission from the truecopyright holders? After all, those aren't your original sounds...
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I doubt that. I can't see someone sitting down and identifying every blip and bleep in there, nor can I see the various people who "own" those quarter century old fragments of electronic sounds even knowing that they "own" them:

Some guy at Williams: Hey Bob, is that our "blip" right there?

In any event, I think that whoever originally records the sounds of a bunch of random arcade machines has "fair use" on his side. I'm not so sure about someone who then goes and "borrows" that original recording. They would of course be free to go record their own arcade sounds.

For example, I doubt the makers of "The King of Kong" got permission from any arcade companies to record video and audio inside of Funspot while the arcade machines were turned on, nor do I believe that they needed to. But that doesn't mean someone else can freely use the material they recorded just because it consisted of sights and sounds that the makers of KoK didn't "own". 

saint:
Interestingly enough, when I wrote my book, my publisher made me get written permission from every party whose images I used.

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