EDIT: Sorry for double posting I forgot I should edit the previous one.

...ask the creator of the sample if it's unclear whether it was meant to be freely usable in music production...

Yeah, I figured that's what I'd do, it's where the idea for this thread came from.
"I need to make a list of all the things I use for music, so I know if attribution is important. Ugh, that's gonna be so much work. Maybe someone could let me see theirs? There should be a thread..."

Subconscious laziness.

Thank you so much!

everything you are asking is in this book.
its not only informative, but actually a pretty entertaining read

So a good rule of thumb is: credit any software you didn't pay for?
No, because if a plugin or homebrew program is released under CC-BY-NC-SA; I have to release under that same license, don't I?

Thread might be salvaged.

godinpants wrote:

When someone gives away content producing software the idea of them then controlling the content is ridiculous..

That's funny, Apple's doing exactly that with their new eBook publishing thing.

You're talking about something completely different. From the consumer's perspective it's a way of restricting your access to what you have paid for. From the content producer's perspective, they're not selling software to write books, as much as a full service book publishing platform and service. What you're suggesting would be equivalent to LSDj offering an online store for music created with the program.

When someone gives away content producing software the idea of them then controlling the content is ridiculous..

That's funny, Apple's doing exactly that with their new eBook publishing thing.

When someone gives away content producing software the idea of them then controlling the content is ridiculous. Any copyrights they choose to hold over the product are over the product itself rather than te content.
You can distribute the product of the software anywhere you want. That is your intellectual property regardless. But you couldn't then distribute the software itself without permission.

And you DO need to credit samples, In most cases. Its a gray area. Bluh. Let's say I sample sounds from an indie game. Or a commercial game I never bought. Details, details.

Then I thought about all the other beginners in my situation. I thought maybe we could put together a single thread with a list of most of the popular tools used for chipmusic, and put what you are and are not allowed to do next to them, in simple terms. Something like: "LSDJ: commercial software, attribution is not necessary but appreciated." Not just software, but samples and things of the sort. I think it could help a lot of people.

I'm busy right now as I make this thread, but I'll come around later and edit the first post to add some of the ones I use. If you guys wanna help out, you could post the tools you use, and what you are and are not allowed to do with them here. I mean, is this even a good idea or...?