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AdamGetsAwesome wrote:
Most people aren't trying to make money off of this and there have been lawsuits for use of nyancat. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement regardless of "cultural canon."
Anyway this guy is trying to make money off of a copyrighted character and hoping nobody notices. How is this apples and oranges?
What you were asking about in the original post was not legality, but why people are outraged by one thing and not another. That's what I was answering.

Right and it's a bit unfair that you're treating some copyright infringement as more OK than other copyright infringement just because it's widely used without attribution of any kind.

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8 Reply by AdamGetsAwesome Nov 13, 2014 9:29 pm

Re: Nyan Cart - an NES Cartridge Release (53 replies, posted in Releases)

TylerBarnes wrote:

AdamGetsAwesome wrote:
Most people aren't trying to make money off of this and there have been lawsuits for use of nyancat. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement regardless of "cultural canon."
Anyway this guy is trying to make money off of a copyrighted character and hoping nobody notices. How is this apples and oranges?
I was unaware this meme was copyrighted. But thanks for painting an unrealistic picture about my character.
But now that you bring it to my attention, this is a cover tune. Isn't there like a mechanical license I can obtain for this?

I wasn't so much talking about the tune since it is at least remade, not just stolen, more about the image. It takes minimal research to find that this is copyrighted material.

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9 Reply by AdamGetsAwesome Nov 13, 2014 9:06 pm

Re: Nyan Cart - an NES Cartridge Release (53 replies, posted in Releases)

nitro2k01 wrote:

AdamGetsAwesome wrote:
So everyone here is cool with copyright infringement as long as it doesn't happen to one of their beloved chip music artists?
The difference is that the Nyancat song is so widely used it can be considered a part of the Internet's "cultural canon". It has gone so far that no one could police the use of the song, even if they wanted to.
What people usually react negatively to in this scene, is when a douchebag artist takes some lesser known chipmusic song and samples it without attribution and hopes that no one will notice it. Apples and oranges.

Most people aren't trying to make money off of this and there have been lawsuits for use of nyancat. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement regardless of "cultural canon."

Anyway this guy is trying to make money off of a copyrighted character and hoping nobody notices. How is this apples and oranges?

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10 Reply by AdamGetsAwesome Nov 13, 2014 8:20 pm

Re: Nyan Cart - an NES Cartridge Release (53 replies, posted in Releases)

So everyone here is cool with copyright infringement as long as it doesn't happen to one of their beloved chip music artists?

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11 Reply by AdamGetsAwesome Nov 13, 2014 6:32 pm

Re: Nyan Cart - an NES Cartridge Release (53 replies, posted in Releases)

Did you get permission to use NyanCat and the song from the copyright owners? It's not really nice to make money off of something that isn't yours without permission...

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