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#8 2010-07-04 15:36:50
- floatingmagictree
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Re: Scratch Music
It's completely legal, because it can't be classified as "pirating".
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#10 2010-07-04 22:52:06
Re: Scratch Music
08jackt wrote:
floatingmagictree wrote:
It's completely legal, because it can't be classified as "pirating".
yeah, i agree with da tree.
who can honestly say they pay for music these days anyway?
That goes in siggeh! 
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#11 2010-07-04 23:00:05
- PlayWithFire
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- Registered: 2010-01-20
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Re: Scratch Music
lol 08jackt is so right.
it makes old people say, "youth is wasted on the young"
and i say
"to be a youth is to be young"
meaning it cannot be wasted 
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#12 2010-07-04 23:02:18
Re: Scratch Music
If someone holds the rights to the music then you can't lawfully download it without paying. This would include downloading from scratch projects.
Last edited by archmage (2010-07-04 23:02:29)
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#13 2010-07-05 00:48:45
Re: Scratch Music
archmage wrote:
If someone holds the rights to the music then you can't lawfully download it without paying. This would include downloading from scratch projects.
Hmmm...but I thought that when you downloaded Scratch, technically they gave you the sounds to use. Then couldn't you legally download the songs onto an iPod or other device?
Last edited by m71134 (2010-07-05 00:49:00)
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#14 2010-07-05 04:32:28
- Paddle2See
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- Registered: 2007-10-27
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Re: Scratch Music
archmage wrote:
If someone holds the rights to the music then you can't lawfully download it without paying. This would include downloading from scratch projects.
I'm not a lawyer but I believe this is correct.
Everything shared on Scratch is put there under a Creative Commons license with Share Alike attributes, meaning others can use it in the same fashion. So if you create sprites and scripts and put them on Scratch, other Scratch users have every right to take that material and reuse it in their projects. But if you take material that has restrictive copy rights, such as most commercially available music, and put it on Scratch things get a bit muddier. You can argue that you have the right to use the music in the project under the "Fair Use" doctrine...but I don't think that removes the rights of the original holder which would probably block somebody else from reusing the music in some other fashion - such as putting it in iTunes.
To make a long story short...unless the music was originally released under an open license, it is probably not legal to put that music into iTunes unless you paid for it. For more information, take a look at our Copyright Policy statement.
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