10 percent rule
- Afro-wolf
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Is it true that you can use a song without being bashed into pieces by lawyers if you use only 10 percent of a song in an animation and you credit the author?
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- Killa5o9
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Yeah, every one in the audio portal would like their song in an animation! (im open)
i make music and stuff, i guess
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At 7/18/09 04:32 PM, benyue1978 wrote: Basically it's working on someone else's song for nothing. and it shows a lack of originality.
False.
Creating a cover will require some investment of effort and will always return on that effort as improved knowledge.
Lack of originality? Not really a statement you can make. I've heard covers that do remarkably original things.
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You can't use any copyrighted material, at all, if you want to be entirely legal. Doesn't matter which section you use, or the size of the section; it's copyrighted and you *can* get sued (and if it's recognizable by a judge, you'll lose).
The songs in the AP, however, are under a specific license:
Attribution: You must give credit to the artist.
Noncommercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes unless you make specific arrangements with the artist under another license.
Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or build upon this music, you may distribute the resulting creation only under a license identical to this one.
Thus, you can use the songs in the Newgrounds AP which are under this license for your noncommercial flashes regardless of what section you use, as long as you give the music artist proper credit.
Support a local composer. All you need to contribute is $10.00 per hour, for sixty years.
Or, you could just visit a profile page and rate/review stuff. Hint-ety hint hint.
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At 7/17/09 07:49 PM, Killa5o9 wrote: Yeah, every one in the audio portal would like their song in an animation! (im open)
Yeah I for one love it when my music is used in Hentai!
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At 7/18/09 10:42 PM, Syntrus wrote:At 7/17/09 07:49 PM, Killa5o9 wrote: Yeah, every one in the audio portal would like their song in an animation! (im open)Yeah I for one love it when my music is used in Hentai!
I like when someone makes a crappy flash then goes through the top 30 and puts every song in their flash so they cant take the song down! Yay!
At 3/27/11 10:22 PM, sugarsimon wrote:
the brilliant songs who create a production for music
Wat
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For newgrounds audio, especially first submissions, there is pretty much a zero-tolerence policy on sampling any commercial piece of work. It is not always illegal though.
Fair Use dictates you can legally sample copyrighted work as long as you're accrediting the original author, releasing the resulting work freely and especially if your work is a tribute or a parody of the song you are sampling. I again stress however, that Newgrounds does not currently follow Fair Use, as we strive only to have totally original music on the portal.
