To be fair, I think the rules were perfectly clear to begin with, but thanks for taking care of this.
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Adelaide, South Australia
My track does not appear in the first weeks list, if I have breached a rule (which I haven't) I would like to be made aware of this.
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Paris
There is a specification about "using samples" i'd like to know?
In my track, i'm using some samples from a Hitchcock movie, which I didn't know if I could use it (but I did it anyway).
I'll certainly use some Jazz (or other genres) samples in my future tracks and I don't know how it works for using them without being deleted?
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St Louis
Sphax wrote:
There is a specification about "using samples" i'd like to know?
In my track, i'm using some samples from a Hitchcock movie, which I didn't know if I could use it (but I did it anyway).
I'll certainly use some Jazz (or other genres) samples in my future tracks and I don't know how it works for using them without being deleted?
my two cents: I'm going to end up using some samples at one point, but I plan on only using a few seconds and making the unrecognizable. otherwise, there might be copyright issues. I think there's a thread in the forum somewhere about sample usage.
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We aren't going through every submission with a fine tooth comb checking every snare and snatch of vocals but if you are sampling something which is obviously recognizable (from a movie / youtube / play / interview / song / radio show etc,) and it is not either public domain or creative commons friendly there is a very good chance we will delete it. This sticky, the upload page and the FAQ are all pretty clear on this.
There are a couple of reasons. The main one is everything on the site is released under a creative commons license or all rights reserved. Most commercial movies, songs etc aren't compatible with Creative Commons.
The second reason is we have people uploading from all over the world and bearing in mind how murky copyright is we would prefer to be on the safe side.
Best practice is either use sounds you create yourself or grab your samples (and attribute them if you need to) from a source like one of those below.
http://www.freesound.org/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
http://www.archive.org/
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L003, C0rnw4//.
so in essance if your songs contain any samples they are basicly invalid - awesome.
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St Louis
the key is to make your samples unrecognizable
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No, If your songs contain samples which aren't cc compatible they are not eligible for weekly beats. If they contain cc compatible samples (there are hundreds of thousands in the links above) they are eligible for weekly beats.
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St Louis
guess I won't include my Impersonator project
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anybody know what the copyrights for samples of drum machines are? like can i get my song taken down from an 808 high hat? or is all that shit fair game?
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Ottawa, Ontario
04tm34l3 wrote:
anybody know what the copyrights for samples of drum machines are? like can i get my song taken down from an 808 high hat? or is all that shit fair game?
considering there's 808 samples on all of those websites above, i don't think you'll have to worry about something like that, but that would be a pretty harsh reality. i'm guessing all of these are copyright-free as well, or the site would have been taken down some time ago: http://samples.kb6.de/downloads.php
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chicago / STL / Tampa
what are our feelings about parody?
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also covers, i wanted to do a ff battle theme cover next week. is this not suitable?
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Riverside, CA
Dkstr wrote:
I think the rules state that no covers.
It says you can as long as you have permission to. I think.