Back in the day there was a lot of copying of pop tunes by 8 bit musicians - the C64 demoscene for example, and even in commercial games - I recall one of Jean Michelle Jarre's pieces as the intro music to Yie Ar Kung Fu! for example - which I am not sure was licensed?? Still, in my opinion, no-one beat Rob Hubbard.. but even he did some copying of JMJ's stuff - Zoolook IIRC. James On 1/4/12, James Warden <warjamy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently tried to help James Morris with the Arnold TNG emulator. By doing > so, I tried the ZapTBall game provided by the Arnold TNG website and to my > surprise, the music theme is a near copy of the old Depeche Mode song called > "Photographic". > > Here is a link to the Depeche Mode song: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUP5W10wGEA > If you jump to 1mn27sec, you will hear the melody that the game is using. > Not only this melody but also the subsequent solo and tone changes are > nearly the same. Does someone know this ZapTBall game and whether the music > theme is legal ? It sounds to me like a case of plagiarism. > > J. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
