Druids-Warcry 2010-01-16 12:18:15

it is harsh! so we need to take a stand to change the polices of Newgrounds to freely submit our work to the audio portal!

Druids-Warcry 2010-01-16 12:53:27

"InGenius"

"Nice. I am going to go to Chronamut's page to see if he got banned for obvious midi ripping. Wait. I don't need to, I know the answer to that. Fuck the bullshit, NG's mods and admins can't even get our fucking profit sharing right and force Flash authors who use CC licensed music in f-rprofit games and movies to pay the audio artists. What business do they have suddenly deciding to enforce one rule when they have never enfored the other 1.5 million that comes with the site:

- CC license expressly disallows for-profit usage of music without renegotiating licensing
- Midi rips are illegal since video game music is expressly copywritten
- Covers are illegal if used in a for-profit manner without publishing license
- Remixes are illegal without mechanical rights, publishing license and possibly even artist negotiations, depending on ownership of publiching and copyright
- Flash authors still use copywritten mainstream music in close to 50% of all flash with audio, and if you add sound effects from games (which are also copywritten) the % is even higher
- Even the sprites from games are copywritten art, which not a single person yet has been banned for using, yet here were are banning for sampled music that is chopped up and used in original audio?

But isn't it nice how only sample based music is getting the ban stick? Nice to know mods and admins are as worthless around here as an asshole on your elbow.

When I submitted I agreed that the music I uploaded was my own, original work. The wording of the agreement is so flexible that anything could be considered my own, original work and at the same time, nothing could. Every chord, progression, melody and harmony, if broken into phrases, has been used before. In some genres, even the combination of melody, counter-melody, harmony, and progressions are just about exhausted. So, nothing is "original". Therefore, the entire agreement is invalid by it's very nature.

Add to that the fact that everytime this sample vs. rules lawyer nonsense gets started again, the mods, admins, and the sycophants who have their lips placed firmly on the asscheeks of the "cognoscenti" (and I mean that sarcastically since the vast majority of mods here couldn't tell me what any country's copyright law actually states, what the court precedent for samples, derivatives and covers is, or any of the particulars concerning copyright). So...basically, NG's portals fail on so many fronts.

It's downright tempting to turn over the gigs and gigs of data that all of us have on our systems to the RIAA and see if they go after the artists sampling old Cole Porter, or the Flash artists downright ripping off music from limewire. Maybe hand off the data to Sony Music Entertainment, who holds much of the publishing rights to OST's, including the midi rips of said, and see if they go after the people sampling three string stabs from an album, or the people with "To Zanarkand" midi ripped on their page. I know who my money is on because I know what the court considers a more heinous and more easily proven copyright infringement, and it isn't the sampling of stabs and Blue Note records."

you should read and be much inlighten

Druids-Warcry 2010-01-25 18:04:12

i rape your ear off and eat it!