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Topic: Remix License? (Read 2491 times)
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Anonymous
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What is the license on the remixes?
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TiLT
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Actually, I'm not really sure. Why are you asking?
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Anonymous
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Curiosity, and hope that the content will one day be Free Software. The current content is non-free, since it only allows distribution as part of Ur-Quan Masters. If the remixes are Free Software, it would bring Ur-Quan Masters one step closer to being Free Software itself.
One concern would be how close they are to the originals. If they use much of the original music and score, like the recent Hyperspace remix for "purists", they can't be distributed at all, since the current content license prohibits derivative works as well as distribution outside of the Ur-Quan Masters package. The remixes that are entirely new and just "inspired by" the original have no such issues.
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Mark Vera
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Me?You mean me,personally? How nice of you to ask!
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I think the remixes are covered by standard copyrights and permissions from the original composers, like any music being remixed anywhere should.
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Novus
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The following is not an expert opinion; I'm a programmer, not a lawyer.
As far as I can tell, there are two separate issues here: what licence is the original music under and what licence is the remixed music under.
The first issue is somewhat unclear, as I don't know any of the details of the deal between the composers and TFB. If the copyright has been reassigned to TFB, they're the ones who decide what's allowed. If the composers still have the copyright, they decide. TFB has allowed distribution of the original unchanged music with UQM, but that's about it. The fact that TFB can allow redistribution suggests that they are the copyright holders, but this is mostly guesswork.
As for the remixes, it is safe to assume that the Precursors are giving us the right to personal use of the music at least. As I can't find any permission to redistribute or anything anywhere, we seem to be limited to fair use rights only, which basically translates as "Do what you like to it, but don't let anyone else see/hear/copy it.".
In order to resolve this situation, we need to know who has the copyright on the original music (Riku? What sort of stuff did you sign?), and under what terms the Precursors will allow redistribution (and possibly modification) of their remixes. Based on currently available data, the Precursors may be vulnerable to legal action from TFB, although this does seem unlikely.
BTW, when is remix pack 3 going to be released?
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Novus
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OK, so the original composers have the copyright on the originals. Most of them should be OK with the remix project, as they're in it themselves; this covers Dan Nicholson, Riku Nuottajärvi, Aaron Grier and Erol Otus. Berge, Brown, Palivec and Dunbar don't appear to have participated in the remix project, but I assume they've granted permission to remix their tunes.
However, as the remix team hasn't specified what licence the remixes are under, if any, it is impossible to tell what form of distribution and modification (if any) of the remixes is legal.
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