chipmusic.org is an online community in respect and relation to chip music, art and its parallels.
You are not logged in. Please login or register.
ChipMusic.org / Forums / Posts by kamsonowicz
Pages 1
Hey all! It's my pleasure to present you my new single called "Cheap Song", perhaps a bit non-orthodox one, as it is a sad love song, but also a chiptune!
Big thanks to lopodyr for performing the vocals and to Darklight for his 'doll' artwork.
Please find "Cheap Song" on your favourite streaming service: https://push.fm/fl/iki4zc1s
Enjoy.
Hi folks! I just dropped my third chiptune album, "Moments Of Mild Daydreaming". I'd be so happy if you could give it a listen! Enjoy.
Cheers!
Here's the list of links to streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/q6zuaix6
Let me present you a second track from upcoming "Moments Of Mild Daydreaming" album. "Moments..." will be available around April / May, in the meantime please enjoy "The Struggle of Waking Up", with video taken straight from the tracker! Cheers.
@meegosh - thanks man! Appreciated.
Presenting first track from my upcoming "Moments Of Mild Daydreaming" album. Hope you'll enjoy it!
Gentlemen, thanks again for all the help and feedback. It was a right thing to ask before doing anything. :)
So after everything I've read online and the comments I've got, including everything in this thread I decided to do the following. I'll try to reach all of the original authors to check with them if they agree to what I'm planning to do. Some are not so easy to reach, from two of them I already have the green light and from others I still wait for the reply, remains to be seen if I'll get it. :)
So if I will not be able to hear from all of them, I will publish the album just on YouTube, without any monetisation and with links to original tracks. Maybe even with a comment like "if you're the original author and don't want your composition to be included here please contact me" etc.
Both Bandcamp and SoudCloud require the permissions to be secured for the covers so without these, the two services are a no-go. Streaming sites may be even more tricky. So yeah - either I'll get the permissions or it is YouTube only. Which still will be fine.
OK, guys, thank you so much for the feedback. You gave me something to think about and I think I'll try to check if I can somehow contact original authors to check if they are OK with me publishing the covers of their old modules. 
Cheers!
Hey Doctor Octoroc, thank you so much for the comprehensive answer!
I definitely want to be safe than sorry - even if I don't do it for money - that's why I decided to investigate a bit.
I understand you have covered "standard" commercial music, and with that there is no question, for sure you need these mechanical licences. I'm just wondering if my situation is any different:
a) 7 out of 10 tunes I want to cover are demoscene music, which in general is on public domain licence. I don't think I need any additional licences for these.
b) 3 out of 10 are form old video games (Lotus III, Pinball Illusions, Flashback) - surely they are not public domain, but I'm also not sure if those would be registered anywhere to get the licenses.
c) most important thing - I've read that if you post to streaming services like Spotify Deezer, Apple Music, Tidal etc. they already pay for the licenses, so you don't need to do anything more when publishing covers. Another thing may be stores with music (iTunes, Amazon) but I can easily skip those.
Case may be a bit tricky with Bandcamp and YouTube as they don't pay the licenses themselves, so you need to take care of it by yourself - if you actually need it that is (or can do it at all). That's why I'm asking, I think in my example I just don't need it:
a) because demoscene is PD,
b) because there's probably no way to acquire licences for retro games music (apart from contacting the authors themselves?),
c) because - in the end - it's generally non-commercial. I know it may be not all that important to some people but I'm counting on some common sense of the original authors. 
Is my line of thinking valid?
Hi guys!
Today I have more of a “legal” question that in general is about chiptunes but may as well be about copyrights. :)
Ok, but let’s get to it.
I’m currently working on my second chiptune album and I want to publish it soon, hopefully within 1-2 months. The thing is - it will be a cover album, with covers of Amiga modules from games, demos and general demoscene. Now, I have two major concerns regarding the album:
a) I want it to be called “Amiga covers” (yeah, took me a while to come up with this name... :P),
b) well, it’s full of covers. ;)
My first album (https://push.fm/fl/ebibq51t) is available almost everywhere (like Bandcamp, YT, all major streaming services) but that is my original work. Now, with the second one, it’s not so easy. First of all I’m not sure about using the “Amiga” name. I have seen an album with “Amiga” in its name before, it was available on Spotify so let’s say it should be OK. In the end it’s just a Spanish word, right?
But what about the covers themselves? I’d like the album to be available on streaming services too but the nature of those is that you can get paid for the streaming. Don’t get me wrong, I’d don’t think I’ll ever be paid, I’m just not that popular. ;) (Just let me tell you that my first album made about 10$ in 5 years lmao and it still needs to get another 40$ for a payout because they pay cash when you reach 50$ lol).
Anyway, some of the original authors (eg. Jester, Olof Gustafsson, XTD, Emax etc) may be against monetisation of that kind. That’s why I wanted to get some advice on that. Is it OK to publish this kind of work on commercial services like streaming sites? I can in the end just put it on Bandcamp, with free listening and download, and YouTube. Then I think there will be no issue whatsoever. But I’d just love to be able to put it on Spotify, Deezer and Tidal as well (I could skip iTunes as I think you cannot withdraw your tunes from the store itself and keep them just in the streaming section) just to boost the possible audience.
I’ll appreciate the feedback, thanks. :)
Hey guys, just wanted to let you all know album is now available on Spotify:
https://play.spotify.com/artist/4egi75H1dbz4qyGbjYmM1b
Deezer:
http://www.deezer.com/album/9829918?utm … medium=web
iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sky-a … d975404896
Cheers
aww, just found the topic. are you closed for submissions already?
So I've released an album.
http://noizzica.bandcamp.com/releases
Noizzica is my project committed solely to chip tune music, I hope the label will develop. All of the tunes were composed using Amiga software, many of them – with real Amiga hardware. #8 written with Protracker, rest of them with AHX Sound System. Oldest track may be from around 2002, newest probably from 2013. Well, I hope you'll enjoy it - if you do, please 'like' Noizzica's fb page (https://www.facebook.com/noizzica.music). :) Take care. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Pages 1
ChipMusic.org / Forums / Posts by kamsonowicz