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Mr. Belpit posted:Even if they'd hypothetically used the Hendrix version in the main menu, that wouldn't necessarily mean they have rights to use it in advertising, would it? The copyright holder can attach almost any restrictions they want to a license.
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Flipperwaldt posted:The cover artist isn't Jimi Hendrix in this case. It's Billy Valentine & The Forest Rangers, or so Youtube tells me anyway. XXXX + forest rangers are basically a professional cover band. They used them a bunch in sons of anarchy. The only decent one was joshua james + forest rangers no milk today
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Platystemon posted:The copyright holder can attach almost any restrictions they want to a license. yeah, I suspected as much.
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Mr. Belpit posted:Even if they'd hypothetically used the Hendrix version in the main menu, that wouldn't necessarily mean they have rights to use it in advertising, would it? It can get even more complicated than that. Sometimes you purchase the right to use a song in an ad only for a set amount of time, like a few months, which means if your trailers are up online after that license expires you have to go back and edit them and replace the music. I once worked for a place that learned that the hard way. Nothing like your trailer getting taken down from your own company's youtube account because of a DCMA request.
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Also licenses are for very specific uses. For a given song there are generally three copyrights - one for the lyrics, one for the composition, and one for the recording. As you can imagine this gets complicated very quickly.
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It's almost as if copyright laws are bullshit or something.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:In fairness to Mafia III, not using Hendrix might have to do with the fact that Hendrix's estate is VERY protective about his music being used. Al Hendrix, Jimi's dad, has a real bug up his rear end about allowing any media he morally disagrees with using his son's music, which sounds reasonable until you realize Al tried to get in Jimi's way almost every step of the way on Jimi's way to the top. Maybe they could have used some reworked Motown stuff, particularly the more socially conscious songs. I am honestly surprised Hendrix's dad is still alive.
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Phlegmish posted:I am honestly surprised Hendrix's dad is still alive. He isn't. He died in 2002. There was a lawsuit after he died because he cut his son out of the will and left everything to Jimi's sister.
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 Please buy our game, there's porn of it, you guys like that right?? 
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it would have work if they were more subtle about it
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Isn't that the guy that has a room full of knives and still thinks Duke Nukem is hilarious
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Killed By Death posted:
If it wasn't lyin' Randy Pitchford, I wouldn't even bother with this, but it is, so I checked. Look at this lineup. https://battleborn.com/en/battleborn/ Then read this two-word question. Of whom?
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Somfin posted:If it wasn't lyin' Randy Pitchford, I wouldn't even bother with this, but it is, so I checked. "The badly rendered one" I'm assuming Randy made the first few to try and get things going to make it "viral". Like a flu. (I'm assuming there actually are some R34 images of them, I'm not checking because my care factor for Gearboxes flopped IP is zero)
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Killed By Death posted:
"Overwatch is better" but that's true 
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Somfin posted:If it wasn't lyin' Randy Pitchford, I wouldn't even bother with this, but it is, so I checked. My god, those character designs are aggressively bad. They looked at LoL and Overwatch and Borderlands, said "Let's do this, but worse," then rose to the challenge. One of those designs is literally Zenyatta with a monocle and bowler hat.
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DancingShade posted:I'm assuming Randy made the first few to try and get things going to make it "viral". Like a flu. I seriously hope that he pulled team artists off of official projects to make softcore porn of his alien-lookin' characters in the hope that he could prove Jim Sterling right and have pornography save a dying moba-like.
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If those designs are indicative of Gearbox's art talents these days then making lovely softcore porn is exactly what they ought to be doing.
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I like Borderlands 2  Mind you, I have terrible taste, so yeah.
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CommissarMega posted:I like Borderlands 2 Borderlands is fine. It's a grind-house game. It's dumb and crass and fun, just like its supposed to be.
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I don't really like Reddit humor so no thanks on Borderlands 2
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I mean, it is the Internet and all, but I can't really see anyone wanting to gently caress any of those characters enough to make porn of them. Seriously, I'm sure if you dug hard enough you could find a "romantic" gently caress comic between the bus from the Magic School Bus, and the Chameleon, but I'm still not convinced anyone has even played Battleborn, let alone put a dick and tits on their random mushroom people.
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The best part is his tweet after. https://twitter.com/duvalmagic/status/821142130135617536
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Who the gently caress uses 'pr0n' in tyool 2017
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CEO who tries to hard to talk to kids these days
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Fried Watermelon posted:CEO who tries to hard to talk to kids these days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ele_dj3ud38
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Did any non-joke Battleborn porn ever exist in the first place?
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Waffleman_ posted:The best part is his tweet after. https://twitter.com/bebopanapolis/status/821148907367448576
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You couldn't beat Overwatch as a game, what the hell makes you think you're gonna beat it at porn?
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Indolent Bastard posted:Borderlands is fine. It's a grind-house game. It's dumb and crass and fun, just like its supposed to be. Exactly- mind you, I play Gaige, whose playstyle once you've got a few levels under your belt is 'hold down LMB when you see a skag until everything is dead,
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Music licensing is great. I bought the Daria DVD set and it has a letter in it about how when they made the show the thought of selling the show wasn't even a thing so they didn't get the home video rights and now it would be cost prohibitive to get them so the solution was to just strip all the music from the show and replace it with generic stuff.
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Len posted:Music licensing is great. I bought the Daria DVD set and it has a letter in it about how when they made the show the thought of selling the show wasn't even a thing so they didn't get the home video rights and now it would be cost prohibitive to get them so the solution was to just strip all the music from the show and replace it with generic stuff. Beavis and Butthead was hosed up real bad for home release for the same reason
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A lot of stuff is. There's a semi-obscure movie about Hunter S. Thompson, Where the Buffalo Roam, that has had most of its soundtrack replaced on all but the earliest VHS releases. (You should check it out anyway if you're at all interested in seeing Thompson portrayed by Bill Murray.) Slapshot had similar issues until the DVD release. And apparently it was very hard to secure all the music rights to be able to release Miami Vice on DVD because that's one show where you really can't substitute, but they managed it.
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Len posted:Music licensing is great. I bought the Daria DVD set and it has a letter in it about how when they made the show the thought of selling the show wasn't even a thing so they didn't get the home video rights and now it would be cost prohibitive to get them so the solution was to just strip all the music from the show and replace it with generic stuff. WKRP In Cincinnati went through something similar, as I understand it the current DVD release has something like 85-90% of the original music intact, with the remainder having generic studio music dubbed in.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:
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Somfin posted:If it wasn't lyin' Randy Pitchford, I wouldn't even bother with this, but it is, so I checked. Alani, Deande, and Pheobe are vague enough that a talented artist probably has enough room to make them not poo poo. I've never actually looked at the characters before and they're in this weird space between over-designed and completely uninspired that makes me gloss over them immediately. Gloss over them to the point that I didn't notice that there were bird people in power armor on that website until I noticed that a few of the characters didn't really have heads... Battleborn could have an entire thread dedicated to its general bad management, but Gearbox itself has been trying very hard to lose any and all goodwill that people have towards it as a company. Whenever I heard the name "Gearbox", I used to think about how much fun I had playing BL1&2 with my brother, but now all I can think about is Randy bragging about getting dropped from a lawsuit based on the extremely negative (and well deserved) reaction to A:CM. You know, when he decided to praise the free market for rewarding his borderline criminal mismanagement of the most influential sci-fi IP since Star Wars "That whole thing was a huge waste of time. The market proved it was doing its job perfectly. The market is dispassionate - rewarding what it likes and punishing what it doesn't. There is an objectivity and fairness in the open market's harsh, firm justice. For every place the market succeeded, the legal system failed as it was being manipulated by what appeared to me to be essentially mafia style extortion tactics."
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I still can't believe people keep bringing up lawsuits over bad videogames. Movies come out being poo poo all the time but oh man an overhyped game let's down gamers and they bring out the fire and pitchforks.
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To be fair if you paid 60 bucks for a movie ticket you'd be pretty pissed off too.
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The Door Frame posted:Alani, Deande, and Pheobe are vague enough that a talented artist probably has enough room to make them not poo poo. I've never actually looked at the characters before and they're in this weird space between over-designed and completely uninspired that makes me gloss over them immediately. Gloss over them to the point that I didn't notice that there were bird people in power armor on that website until I noticed that a few of the characters didn't really have heads... I knew Randy was a dipshit even before all this. He straight up told so many lies about BL1, that I didn't even get BL2 until I got word from someone I trusted that it was good.
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Len posted:I still can't believe people keep bringing up lawsuits over bad videogames. Movies come out being poo poo all the time but oh man an overhyped game let's down gamers and they bring out the fire and pitchforks. It's very rare for games, even for non-functional ones like Arkham Knight, to get actual lawsuits brought against them. A:CM used marketing so deceptive that it was likely against America's very relaxed consumer protections. The differences between games and other forms of media can be pointed at, but the fact of the matter is that video game advertising is pretty hosed up in relation to basically any other consumer item on the market. Very few companies will go to E3, the place for most of the industry to advertise their products, and say that what's playing on the screen behind them is a dev build, running on a stronger machine than any console, and was actually a scenario tailored for this specific event, so will not directly appear in the finished game. Commercials for toys at least say "dramatization" or let the consumer know that it's not how the actual product behaves. Lawsuits like the one against Sega or the likely one pending over No Man's Sky help set advertising standards that protect consumers
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