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(73 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Edward Shallow wrote:
and the lack of user support

What? They have teh best user support, they answer swiftly, and that PR girl they have even sends me emails sometimes just asking if everything is alright and if we need like a coffee or anything.

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.

Akira: this was the license that porno-uzi put out the compil (mp3 versions of sids) under: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

edit: and the compil is no longer on archive.org because I told them to take the song down, but they removed the whole compilation... I guess they didn't want to take any risks.

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?

now let this be a lesson to you all, never upload anyone elses stuff under a CC license without asking first or there will be shitstorms.

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.

Just got off the phone with bit shifter. He was involved with the video-producers and he told me they were all really pro and nice and the only episode he wasn't involved with was that last one because he wasn't available at that time (blip tokyo) so they had told him they would get someone else for that last ep. Anyways, he concluded to that it probably is just a mistake from their side and he is hooking me up with them directly so we can sort this out.
So probably just a fuckup by slate, maybe because of a tight deadline or something.

what is left is maybe to identify the first song in the episode, since it is neither mine nor porno-uzis.

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

Also, I'd like to add another reason why this is upsetting. This is actually the third time this happens to me but the first case was somewhat different. That time there was a guy posing as the author for 2 of my songs licensing them to a similar magazine. When we got in touch with them, it showed up that he had gotten a $4 diggits check for the 2 songs, so there is no small money involved. Hence, I have learned to be on my guard against this kind of things. There seems to be an occupation where people pick obscure/free music of the net and sell/license it, in a true laromlab/timberland spirit of "its just a videogame you idiot".

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!

this is getting even more odd, all the other videos in the same campaign is said to have music by bit shifter,

edit: googled some more, one of the authors has also done video work for Good magazine, who has previously used my songs without permission back in 2008. wtf

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.

whats odd though is the filter + those arps thats added on top of my song...

Hello, I just sent out some legal threats to Slate Magazine (washington post) for them using my music in some videos of theirs against my will, credited to a certain porno-uzi. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72YG2DhWHmE at 1min:13) Thats my track Sector 1B from C'etait mieux en RDA (2007)
(http://open.spotify.com/track/5fyY6loGGCzO4YBGnntg7D)

I found some info about releases by him on here, so if anyone know how to get in touch with this guy let me know so we can solve this in a civilized manner. I hope it is just an error, like miss-credited or Slate that fucked up.