About copyright

Monkey · Post by **Monkey** » March 24th, 2005, 3:23 am

I'm making a campaign and I need to know about copyright? It's an terror campaign, about dracula and other nocturnal creatures. I'm thinking about using some Castlevania midi music. Is that legal or I'm gonna get my ass sued in some time now?

Post by **Aleksi** » March 24th, 2005, 9:13 am

Its not legal.
Castelvania music, i think, is Nintendo's copyright. You don't want to mess with them... or anybody! Make your own music, or find some already made under GPL licence so you can freely use it.

Aleksi.

Gafgarion · Post by **Gafgarion** » March 24th, 2005, 9:23 am

Aleksi wrote:Its not legal.
Castelvania music, i think, is Nintendo's copyright. You don't want to mess with them... or anybody! Make your own music, or find some already made under GPL licence so you can freely use it.

Aleksi.

Konami's copyright, actually... and yeah, it's as legal as using a Metallica MP3 for music.

Monkey · Post by **Monkey** » March 24th, 2005, 6:54 pm

Are you sure? If I'm not mistaken, if I do something with no money profit, and give them the proper credits it's ok.
At least this is what I do with books.

Post by **Aleksi** » March 24th, 2005, 7:14 pm

100% sure. I'm a musician and my music is copyrighted. Nobody can use my music without my permission if its played over 30 sec. Then you have other alternatives but forget it for your campaign.
Especially games and movies music. You usually pay BIG bucks to get to use them. So if this music is owned by Konami you can forget it...

Monkey · Post by **Monkey** » March 24th, 2005, 8:09 pm

I guess I'll just make something similar myself then.

Post by **Aleksi** » March 24th, 2005, 8:24 pm

I think is the best solution.