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How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?
by ranger_danger 1y ago
How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?
- cammikebrown 1y agoPffft, this is fair use
- gruez 1y agoI know "fair use" gets bandied about quite frequently on youtube uploads, but offering full verbatim downloads of any work is highly unlikely to be considered fair use if a court were to rule on it. The only reason such sites are still up is that the rights holders don't care enough to sue.
- kmeisthax 1y agoYes, and this is also the real tragedy of automated copyright enforcement. All the funny grey area uses get marginalized.
- fair_enough 1y agoWe need adverse possession ("squatter's rights") for intellectual property. I'm surprised copyright trolls are not buying IP from defunct game/film/music companies and suing youtubers left and right for uploading video game music and anime OSTs. If I were a sociopath and didn't care how I make my money, I draft some legit-looking legal threat letter template demanding $10,000 to avoid a civil lawsuit worth millions, fill in the blanks with a name, IP address, and title of pirated content, then mail out the letters by the tens of thousands using USPS-subsidized cheap mail. If you mail out about 20k of these threats, you only need 3 of them to pay up to come out on top.
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- hnthroay22312 1y agonot the same under Japanese's copyright law.
- fair_enough 1y agoYou should figure out who owns the copyright and report this infringement. Someone in Japan will surely be indignant about the all the lost revenue from people who are not buying a CD full of train station jingles.
- Animats 1y agoGood question. The composer and artist of most of them in Japan is Minoru Mukaiya.[1] He's also the CEO of Ongakukan, which builds train simulators for both games and training. He's done over a hundred original station jingles.[2] Many of the Yamanote Line jingles are classics, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Mukaiya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Mukaiya [2] https://www.ongakukan.co.jp/en/business/music/#melody https://www.ongakukan.co.jp/en/business/music/#melody
- ekianjo 1y agoSeems like he has nothing to do with the Yamanote line melodies though.
- unleaded 1y agoYou Wouldn't Download a Train Station
- layer8 1y agoThere is some joke involving audio tracks in here.