Quote from: Lingon on March 08, 2009, 01:39:32

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....it would be non-human to just abuse someone's music without having permission. How would you feel if you spend 2 months to work on something and you're proud of? Then you learn that someone used what you made in a crappy movie or level or whatever without even asking you? I certainly would be really pissed.

I'm not sure of how I would feel. But i think that instead of being really pissed, i would be proud and glad that someone thought my work of art was good enough to use in their own work. As long as they did not claim it as their own of course. However, this was not my opinion some time ago... but i've changed my mind about that. If i make something i'm proud of, i do not hide it in my basement and lock the door.

Do you even make music, or graphics that you really are proud of?

I do, and I had an occasion that really pissed me of.

Someone had made a knytt stories level that allowed you to do dancing music using shifts and so. It was quite buggy and not that cool either. It was just a fun level to play. Someone had put a song I'm really proud on in the background and played that level badly to make it dance on my music. This person did so wtihout my permission nor the permission of the person who made the level. I really didn't liked it at all. Tried even to get it off using youtube's privacy infrigment, but they didn't wanted to remove it.

And I'm really not the only person who feels like this. It occasionally happens that when I have made a song and someone asks me for permission to use it in their work that I say no. But I usually have another song or am willing to make something equally so they don't go home empty handed. Not to mention that some songs are actually licensed. Meaning that its illegal to use them anyway.

What's your problem? I don't think anyone would agree with you. If someone releases a song for free and some guy puts that song as the background music to one of his youtube videos, he wouldn't not be pissed and nobody would complain to youtube and get it taken down for copyright infringement. That's insane why would you do that?

The important thing is for art to be created. If free stuff you've released is a part of someone's creative vision for a project, and they work it into what they create, something positive has happened. You got pissed off because he didn't ask your permission, making you egotistical (my imagined rights override any creative vision you have) and petty (Ask real nice and maybe I'll let you).

(I do notice you're an admin but I hope admin action won't interfere with what are, I assure you, honest sentiments from someone who hopes to get involved in the KS community - I just discovered the game)