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How close can game music legally be to another?
polycounter lvl 11
I was watching the Runescape 3 video and.....
Song at 0:22
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZAA_9mQGg"]RuneScape 3: Sizzle - YouTube[/ame]
Song at 0:50
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3fLzxRX40"]World Of Warcraft : Wrath Of the Lich King Main Theme - YouTube[/ame]
How could no one inside the studio catch this....? This is something id expect from Gameloft, not anyone else. And I really doubt it was a coincidence lol
Song at 0:22
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZAA_9mQGg"]RuneScape 3: Sizzle - YouTube[/ame]Song at 0:50
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3fLzxRX40"]World Of Warcraft : Wrath Of the Lich King Main Theme - YouTube[/ame]How could no one inside the studio catch this....? This is something id expect from Gameloft, not anyone else. And I really doubt it was a coincidence lol
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I'm sure someone who's involved with film & game scores can pull out plenty of songs that sound just as similar.
this sounds almost like a carbon copy
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The video description says it quite well. These kind of similarities are often due to people using the same samples.
There are also some interesting examples in the work of Yoko Kanno.
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I don't recall any interviews explaining the similarities, but my guess is that if she's still making OST's after all these years, then the music is either properly licensed, while some of these can be treated as covers, or inspirations.
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Haha, I spent countless hours playing HoMM games. :poly136: Too bad they never clicked with me after Ubisoft started making them.
Sometimes is usually a lead/director that wants to copy the same idea because of lack of knowledge in audio/music compositing.
Dude, what you're hearing an inconsequential, coincidental similarity in a standard string run pattern, why are you claiming that it's copying?
As an aspiring composer myself I take great issue with your comparison. What do you mean you can't believe no one at the studio caught this? You realize that it's a pattern of 4 NOTES?
Take a look at a few standard orchestral libraries:
Orchestral String Runs
http://www.orchestraltools.com/page3/index.php
Cinematic Strings:
http://www.cinematicstrings.com/
8dio Adagio Violins Vol. 1
http://8dio.com/instrument/adagio-violins/
These all have patches that play patterns, chord progressions, string runs, in different styles, intensity, and velocity. They are all sampled from real orchestral strings. Guess what? Some of them have the SAME PATTERNS because it's STANDARD.
If two composers use the same library, does that mean the less popular one is copying the other's work? That's the assumption you're making.
To reiterate, even if they aren't using a pre-recorded pattern and just performing it with a versatile library (more likely), it's a STANDARD STRING PATTERN OF 4 NOTES. If you think this is copying, then we should be free to rip through your portfolio and identify every tiny similarity of your art to someone else's, because you MUST be copying it.