Just like the tape sharing days in the 80s, where 1 person would buy the vinyl and make 50 odd copies to hand out at gigs to get that band exposure. Sharing on any internet platform is accepted as free marketing tools by a lot of people in the music industry now, especially after the backlash Metallica got for Napster. There is also a legal right to busk in areas, but that's about the area not the music. But I know in Australia that cover bands and DJs do not have to get any permission from the original artist or the record label to play a song or make their own version of it and play it whilst getting a payment from the venue, there's also no fees involved as a result. A nice surprise as a compliment to the original artist that if I really enjoy I can donate to.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah there's a lot of things that businesses, because they are making money, cannot do. As to me they are the busker on the street playing a Metallica song with their guitar. But I'm not against downloading anything else for free. I don't like paying for mods that aren't 100% original or only have parts/textures from the game the mod is designed for. If they took models and physics from a lot of other games and then made their own game without any deals in place, then I'd get the level of anger people who aren't the one getting their work used by other people. It's just always felt weird to me how stark the difference is and this need for permission that just doesn't exist in the music industry at that level for me. Yet in the gaming industry this is largely frowned upon. In the music industry this is perfectly legal and actively encouraged as a great and clean way to get into the industry. Now this is a grey area as they've fully admitted to using other people's work, but they are making money off of it. If they say where the model is from and charge for it, it's a cover band or DJ at a pub on a weekend. As this is like releasing a song where you've taken samples of other people's music, changed it a little and called it your own, it's perfectly legal but feels a bit dirty.īut if there's no price tag and they say where what they didn't make is from, it's just a cover band or DJ playing for free in their garage. If that has a price tag then EA who now owns the rights has some ground for legal recourse, but just like Metallica they would look like selfish pricks to some and defending their livelihood to others. Like a pCARS model with new physics for AMS2 for example with no mention of the pCARS model origin. The only area where legality can come into it for me is when they are making money directly from someone else's work. As to me there's the band and development company on one level and the record label and the car company on another level who have rights to the copyrights. They are a cover band playing songs in their garage to a small crowd for free. I understand the licences and all that but most of these mods aren't selling the exact copy of a Metallica song to a large audience. In the music industry it's now standard practice to make money from other peoples work and not even mention where you got the sample from. To me it's like getting mad about a cover band, DJ or entire genres of music where they mix other people's music and call it their own. I've absolutely never truly understood why so many get heated on their perceived problems of these so called "illegal" mods. DISCLAIMER: This is the perception of a musician on copyright.
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