Terms of Use for Playing Musical Instruments

[Risvertasashi]

Interesting thread. A bit like if someone decided to translate a post complaining about the parser, asking if parse-users are aware it's against the TOS.

Somehow, I doubt musicians of other languages never ever play copyrighted music...

[Bearded]

There is nothing wrong with a musician playing copyrighted music - what is wrong is when they perform that music in public. That is why bards are not permitted to perform such music as a performance in FFXIV is technically a "public" performance. Sheet music is available for copyrighted works and they can be performed in all manner of instances but when they drift into public performance and especially where reward is involved then the copyright holder for public performance will want their cut.

Reminds me of an instance when a local school production of the Wizard of Oz was prevented from going ahead because a West End production was happening and the copyright holder pulled the plug on all other performances.

[Axxion]

How i look at it. When bards are performing it like they are covering the songs.

Take a look at warframe and octavia.

[Risvertasashi]

Take a look at warframe and octavia.

And the mandachord makes bard performance look like a pro music tool. A grand total of 5 notes with no octave shifting at all....

[Bearded]

Even cover versions need to pay a fee to the original copyright holder(s) and they have no obligation to permit the use of their copyrighted music.

[Axxion]

Even cover versions need to pay a fee to the original copyright holder(s) and they have no obligation to permit the use of their copyrighted music.

thats facts, however you are most likely to be taken down on twitch more then in game.

Also we do not know is they have license for it as well.

[Krotoan]

.. we have all just literally been yelled at by our neighbors for our loud music.

Forgive me while I laugh and roll around.

[Snorky]

Ridiculous thread is ridiculous. I could see if people were profiting from it but playing music in game is no worse then someone having a radio on loud so everyone heard it.

[Larirawiel]

Ridiculous thread is ridiculous. I could see if people were profiting from it but playing music in game is no worse then someone having a radio on loud so everyone heard it.

The copyright thingy is very strange and full of traps. I can understand that SQEX only allows music where they have the copyright. And it is also so, if you want to hold the copyright or patent rights on something then you have to protect it. Otherwise it can be that it becomes public domain.

Cheers

[Ranaku]

Best joke i heard in a long time, bringing ToS, western players and "reading" into one context really shows that this must be a foreigner.

And i mean that not even in a mocking way, what i mean is basically nobody over here gives two kupo nuts about any ToS be it from games or companies like Apple or Google. People just click accept and they don't read at all. You can basically write in the ToS what you want and people would still blindly accept it.

So no hopes that this will change at all, sorry though that the japanese datacenters have to suffer for it.