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#1 2011-10-16 23:07:29

bdn7
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Taking Songs Out Of Scratch Projects

I noticed that since you can export sprites, costumes and sounds from a downloaded project, that if someone has a song in their project and you could export it to your iTunes library. Would that be legal?


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#2 2011-10-17 06:54:53

astroLoger
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Re: Taking Songs Out Of Scratch Projects

Well, personally, I don't think it is legal, because you are getting the songs for free when others had to pay for them. You are downloading them from the internet for free, so would you say torrents are illegal? Maybe I am being a little bit too extreme though. Anyway, I would discourage it.

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#3 2011-10-17 08:09:37

Greenatic
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Re: Taking Songs Out Of Scratch Projects

astroLoger wrote:

Well, personally, I don't think it is legal, because you are getting the songs for free when others had to pay for them. You are downloading them from the internet for free, so would you say torrents are illegal? Maybe I am being a little bit too extreme though. Anyway, I would discourage it.

It depends whether or not it's copyrighted.

If it is: You technically shouldn't download it, because it shouldn't have been uploaded in the first place.  Most people probably won't mind though; it's like Youtube.

If it isn't:  Go for it!  Open-source stuff is meant to be used!

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#4 2011-10-17 18:33:28

astroLoger
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Re: Taking Songs Out Of Scratch Projects

Greenatic wrote:

astroLoger wrote:

Well, personally, I don't think it is legal, because you are getting the songs for free when others had to pay for them. You are downloading them from the internet for free, so would you say torrents are illegal? Maybe I am being a little bit too extreme though. Anyway, I would discourage it.

It depends whether or not it's copyrighted.

If it is: You technically shouldn't download it, because it shouldn't have been uploaded in the first place.  Most people probably won't mind though; it's like Youtube.

If it isn't:  Go for it!  Open-source stuff is meant to be used!

Yeah, I forgot about the open-source stuff, which like Greenatic said is meant to be used/downloaded.

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#5 2011-12-04 15:08:16

gurlygurl
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Re: Taking Songs Out Of Scratch Projects

i personally think that we should.becase it has to be legal <play sound[  ]and waits>be case its unlucky for the other people. and since the people already have the songs downloaded so it would be fair

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