Use of cover songs in homebrew games

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by on (#64729)
In this post, mic_ wrote:
it will still require some actual work to get a good-sounding cover (take chris' "Comic Bakery" cover for example)

Or Dead or Alive's "Comic Bakery" cover ;-)

(proof)

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Not to mention that even commercial games on the old consoles / home computers had music that were covers or remixes of pieces of classical music or pop songs.

Classical yes; pop no. I worry more about what the major music publishers will do, given that licensing songs for use in video games to be sold is a big business now. But I encourage people to raid Mutopia for songs to arrange and raid it hard.

by on (#64731)
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Not to mention that even commercial games on the old consoles / home computers had music that were covers or remixes of pieces of classical music or pop songs.



Classical yes; pop no.

You don't consider Jarre to be pop music?

by on (#64732)
Most of us don't have the financial resources of Konami or Elite Systems to license big-name songs for use in compo entries.

by on (#64733)
I'd be surprised if they payed him a dime. C64 games weren't exactly big budget projects. But hey, who knows.

by on (#64737)
Probably should split the music stuff away...

While we're at it...
The song you hear all the time in sports arenas

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsorGbKwNlA[/url]The C64 game they took it from[/url]