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Everything actually got sorted out really smooth with Slate. So nothing more to see here, move along move along.

and again, read up on licenses before you spread someones work on the internet. sharing is caring, but stripping someones work of its rights so it can be used for commercial and political purposes is not.

I guess this thread can be locked now.

I am sorry but I don't understand your message :S
I have no problem with people pirating my music on the net, everything else would be extremely hypocrite seeing my history... but this wasn't the case here. What you did was to release my music under a CC license, which gives people like Slate TV the right to use it for commercial purposes, that is not the same as pirating it, that is 100 times worse. If you didn't understand what CC was then I can't blame you but let this be a lesson to you, and everyone else, that it is not cool to take peoples work and put it out under CC against their will. I never meant to be offensive against you and I don't think I have?

Ok they just got back to me and it is in fact a fuckup by porno uzi. They took the song from http://archive.org/details/Commodore64Mix since used it for free since that mix is released under CC. Now, I have never agreed to that _any_ of our material to be released under CC, and on top of that the song is misslabeled (given the name from a c64 demo it appeard in, not its actual title)

So, thanks to porno-uzi releasing our material under CC against our knowledge and will, the misslabeleing and on top of that the ignorance from Slate to not read/understand that it was a mix with music from other artists than porno-uzi, we have got us a situation here.

Legalizing weed in the state of Washington will clearly help the indie music community to flourish.

ok my bad, what about the others. the first song in the romney obama video sounds like a C64.

edit: and again my bad, the song in the video is actually Zabutoms remix of my track, hence the parts I didn't recognize. it was released on the RDA remixes EP from 2010

I am of the very simple principle that sharing is caring but if someone uses my work for commercial purposes (as this clearly is) I am not ok with it. Last time this happened, Good bent over and payed up, but Slate is 10 times bigger than Good and this video has 300k hits. With their random credits to chiptune artists not related to the music in the actual videos this seems like a clear case of the -picking free music of the internet without giving a fuck- syndrome that is getting more and more common. The thing that adds to it is that one of the creators was involved with the same mag (good) that did the exact same thing a few years ago...

The C&D letter has already been sent out. But I love personal dialogue with the people involved. Thing is, legalwise they are on very thin ice, so from experience I see no reason to bend over and take it. 

What disgusts me is like, every day I get emails from fans and random people asking me if they can use my music in their non-commercial videos, games and whatever, which I am almost always cool with (if it's not political etc). But big players like Slate don't give a flying fuck. Their ignorance just sux

edit: thanks for the axe!

I just got in touch with porno-uzi and he swears he is innocent. could this be a case of a sneaky videoproducer just taking some random chipmusic from the internet and putting a random name as credits aka to get free music? the first track in the video doesnt sound like the other tracks by porno-uzi on his soundcloud at all.

thing that bothers me is, there are clearly some changes to my track, a filter + an arrpegio and some reverb added on top of it. so I am still left with the feeling that something is quite laromlab with this story.