[Sudden situation] Is this infringement?

[gummywinter]

In China, several players re-arranged the original soundtrack of FF14 and produced them for CD sales.
The promotional video was sent on the Chinese video website bilibili, and it can be purchased on Taobao.

The price is 56RMB.

Track content includes 13 songs such as "美の謀略 〜蛮神ラクシュミ討滅戦〜" "究極幻想" "千年の暁 ～朱雀征魂戦～".
The content of this CD is very exciting, but I want to know if this is allowed, is this infringing copyright?

For this question, the explanation of the selling team is "
The included soundtrack are completely re-arranged using the paid commercial sound source. It is not directly used in the official version. The album is even commercially available. This type of fan album has many similarities in Japan and around the world.".

But what is certain is that the basic melody is the melody of the original soundtrack in the game.


Can the admin answer my doubts?

[Kaedan]

Yes, it's most definitely copyright infringement.

However, China is well known for never accepting any legal complaints about copyright infringement. They have online games in China which are exact copies of other MMOs, even down to the code, but China will not acknowledge any attempt by the owner of the IP to sue.

[JackHatchet]

Admins won't know the answers to this stuff. That's why big corporations have lawyers on staff.

But as the above poster mentioned--China never takes responsbility for this stuff. The burden will fall on the consumer to ensure they don't support bad companies.

[DumdogsWorld]

It's not infringement if there's no laws against it. Just ask China.

"Copyrights? What are those?"

[gummywinter]

So what should I do next is the most appropriate?
Ignore or report?
some players take it for granted makes me feel sick.I think that is a mistake and a stupid act.

[Corue]

Forget it, OP, it's Chinatown.

[Nedkel]

Hey buddy, what should we do about it?
SE devs do not visit us here, our feedback is thrown into the trash bin all the time.
Creating any thread regarding the game issue in english forums is like complaining about US government in the middle of red square at Kremlin. 乁(ツ)ㄏ

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Hey buddy, what should we do about it?
SE devs do not visit us here, our feedback is thrown into the trash bin all the time.
Creating any thread regarding the game issue in english forums is like complaining about US government in the middle of red square at Kremlin. 乁(ツ)ㄏ

They do read the forums. IIRC, they stated Yoshi-P gets a weekly summary of the posts on here. Just because they don't respond to EVERY LITTLE THING PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT doesn't mean they don't listen to the feedback.

[Dyvid]

Yes it is but China has never worried about silly things like International Law.

[Amnmaat]

Must be nice for China to use other's work for free.