Re: good gaming music CD

Werebat wrote:


Dirk Collins wrote:

"Werebat" wrote:

Brother Long wrote:

On Mar 5, 7:00 am, vince garcia wrote:


Someone recently was asking about a good music CD for gaming background
music. I just got in what turns out to be a good one: BEST OF INUYASHA
vol III. Features a lot of great fantasy instrumental cuts I can't say I
recognize from the show. It's from Japan so you'd have to get it thru
ebay.


I've actually found the Official D&D soundtrack wasn't bad. For more
of a Gothic horror feel, you can try "Midnight Syndicate". Also, I'm a
big fan of movie soundtracks--"Conan" is a good one.

An artist I use pretty heavily is David Arkenstone.

I have a rather extensive collection of gaming music that I keep on my iPod (a couple of the regulars here have had the opportunity to peruse it). Some of my stuff is ripped from video games, and some more of it is stitched together by yours truly using ripped/sampled sounds and an editor.

For a while now I've considered figuring out how to set up a website where people could download this stuff. I imagine I could get in legal trouble for posting actual unedited game music and sounds from games like BGII, NWN, etc. -- but what about tracks that I make on my own by combining samples of ripped music and sounds? For example, I have a "Droaam Tavern" track of about 9 minutes featuring background barroom babble sprinkled with many Orcish and Goblinoid exclamations and conversations as well as background musicians playing music from Planescape:Torment and Masters of Orion II (the Bulrathi track in particular sounds Goblinoid to me). Could I get in trouble for making something like this available to download?


I'm no lawyer, and this isn't legal advice, it's just my opinion:

Yes, on that last question. Big Trouble When you play your music for yourself, it's one thing, the moment you start broadcasting it on the radio, giving away copies of your music, or transferring copies via the internet it's another.

Create and record the music for yourself though, from scratch, or from previously written *** music where the copyright has expired, or license the existing music to re-sell, and you would be good to go.

See, that's my first thought, and then I think of all the *sampling* that goes on and I wonder what the law says about that. I mean, if I make a track and in includes, say, the mynock from The Empire Strikes Back shrieking in the background once, is that copyright infringement?

Or do musical artists get permission for everything they sample?

- Ron ^*^


Here are some (presumably) helpful links.


Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)


Emusician:

http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_clear/


CSUSA:

http://www.csusa.org/caw/caw_2006_teachers_articles_clearances.htm
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