Request for clarification on License in relation to Perform

[Mhaeric]

The funniest thing about this whole FFXIV covering their butt over potential copyright issues is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBu2pPyhAwg vs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBjc7ojnAaU

[Hasrat]

I'm beginning to think that Squenix isn't going to give us an "official" response to this very legitimate question...

Pretty doubtful that SE's lawyers are forum regulars.

[Zfz]

Pretty doubtful that SE's lawyers are forum regulars.

Which is irrelevant. There are forum mods and community managers who are responsible for picking up feedback from the forums and relaying it to the relevant team.

[CaTi]

Perhaps it's just a catch all statement so that people can't claim ignorance of what is and isn't public domain when deliberately flaunting the rules? The fewer loopholes there are then the easier it is to theoretically enforce right?

[AlyssaWildheart]

The funniest thing about this whole FFXIV covering their butt over potential copyright issues is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBu2pPyhAwg vs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBjc7ojnAaU

Just check out Sephirot and King Moogle Mog on youtube and the first comments are- "THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE!!!" "This is Halloween"

But I agree, I find it ridiculous that SE gives us the opportunity to play whatever music we want but then gives us huge limitations. Then they parody or slightly change music.

But have others have said- it's not like they are going to monitor you so you can technically play what you want.

[Kahnom]

For me,I’m not worry about it at all.I will play whatever I want,whenever I want.
I just want to have fun,kill time,entertain people etc.

[MuseTraveller]

In spirit of upcoming holidays, I was wondering if Christmas Carols too fall under the "don't play in public" songs?

[Theodric]

My main concern is that it feels like players are essentially being held hostage. The perform feature is something present in various other MMO's and none of them - to my knowledge - have such a strict policy in place nor have they had any legal issues to the point where the feature has had to be removed from those games entirely. There would be a lot of understandable backlash if the perform feature were to be removed from FFXIV, regardless of the reasoning. It's clear that there are plans to expand it over time so if at any point it is removed then that is cutting out not only current content but future content as well.

I would also be very annoyed if players start getting banned for performing third party songs in-game when known win traders have gone unpunished for multiple seasons in ranked PvP despite multiple reports...and Frontlines has been infested with botters ever since experience was added as a reward for both winning and losing. In short, I'm hoping it's just legal stuff to cover all their bases.

[Sarugo98]

I wish Square Enix just contacted the composers they had working for them and have them sign that they won't pursue legal actions would be more than happy if in the end every Square Enix games music is okey for us to play no questions asked

[Okamimaru]

If square enix owns our original songs once they're performed in game we should all write the most horribly offensive music (add lyrics via chat) we can possibly muster.... obviously do it away from the public as to avoid harassment claims... then see how much of our creations SE really wants to own lmao