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Earthbound prices to plummet?
larryinc64:
I guess I was proven wrong, YAY POTENTLY CHEAPER EARTHBOUND!
Also:
Dr. Mario -- Blue Oyster Cult - Dr. Music / The Beatles - Lady Madonna
wiggy:
To be fair, it's called sampling and it was entirely legal without acquiring any sort of rights from the creator back then. So none of these games were technically stealing, from a legal standpoint. That's long since been amended though.
Not to mention that some bits and pieces simply don't fall under copyright (see all the drum beats of Jabo Starks).
I think the more inflated the cost of a particular game, the more likey it is to fall, and EB is so overly inflated at this point.
Next up: EVO on VC please! ;D
Retro Deckades:
While we are asking for games on VC, how about some Little Samson love??
If Japan Wii U owners are getting the same promotion as those in North America (The Virtual Console Trial Campaign), then they will have the opportunity to buy Earthbound for THIRTY CENTS.
larryinc64:
--- Quote from: wiggy on January 23, 2013, 10:44:37 PM ---To be fair, it's called sampling and it was entirely legal without acquiring any sort of rights from the creator back then. So none of these games were technically stealing, from a legal standpoint. That's long since been amended though.
Not to mention that some bits and pieces simply don't fall under copyright (see all the drum beats of Jabo Starks).
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I have herd mixed things over sampling, I know many artists have to pay for samples, I think I heard the most exspensive one ever was "Tomorrow Never Knows," MAny samples slip through, and there are some songs that use the tune of another without taking the original recording ("Why Don't You Get A Job" Offspring, "Oh-Bla-Di Oh-Bla-Da" Beatles) There are many lawsuits and such, even if some are legal, the original artist can still try and sue.
I remember something about "The Grey Album" A mash up of The Beatles "White Album" and Jay-Z's "Black Album" both Jay-Z and Paul McCartney said they felt fine with the project but EMI still tried to sue.
The part sampled from All You Need Is Love, was the "Claude Joseph Rouget De Lisle" intro to the song. And the MPFC theme is "The Liberty Bell" both in the public domain. But seeing how the sample was taken from the Beatles and Python versions, I think it is a grey area.
But it is also another thing to copy large portions of:
When I'm 64
Good Morning, Good Morning
Johnny B. Goode
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Tequila
The Changeling
Welcome to the Machine
Among others...
wiggy:
It's a SUPER difficult area in copyright law and the laws governing such things are constantly evolving.
Not an area of law that I'd want to be involved in (or any civil law for that matter). My attorney friends all groan when the subject comes up. After many stories from they and their colleges, I know why :-\