Without turning this into a political debate, take a look at this...

Match Your Candidate Game

What are the odds that Score Productions, Fremantle, or whoever's in control of the rights allowed the use of some vaguely familar music during the intro and in the game?

- David

I doubt they know about this. But what do I know. I can not see them approving something like this. Even the graphics are very familiar.

Tim :-)

QUOTE (dzinkin @ Sep 27 2003, 12:25 AM)

Without turning this into a political debate, take a look at this... Match Your Candidate Game What are the odds that Score Productions, Fremantle, or whoever's in control of the rights allowed the use of some vaguely familar music during the intro and in the game? - David

My guess is.... There is no way in hell that was cleared either by Score or Fremantle. I'm not in the mood to play snitch, so I'm just going to pretend I never saw that. The rest of you are free to do whatever makes you feel good.



John

This isn't much different than the TPIR online game with several common cues (widely available, unautorized), Crystal Waters theme (who apparently got the theme unauthorized), and Grand Theft Auto (which doesn't use TPIR cues, but does use the "TPIR" font)

QUOTE (Skynet74 @ Sep 27 2003, 01:20 AM)

I'm not in the mood to play snitch, so I'm just going to pretend I never saw that

Tell who? If they go after one, they have to go after everybody and I don't think they want to do that, nor do they care. I do believe, however, if this was on TV, it would be a different story.

Doesn't parody fall under fair use?

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Doesn't parody fall under fair use?

You might need to ask Ariana's friend Al Franken that ;-)

QUOTE (cmjb13 @ Sep 27 2003, 07:32 AM)

and Grand Theft Auto (which doesn't use TPIR cues, but does use the "TPIR" font)

I can't imagine that TPiR has any kind of exclusive rights to the Pricedown font.

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Tell who? If they go after one, they have to go after everybody

SO not true. The police don't have to go after every speeder, the RIAA doesn't have to go after every illegal downloader.

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Doesn't parody fall under fair use?

My impression is that it might in this case, although using copyrighted music without permission is tricky business, especially these days.

At any rate, the "quiz" link is no longer on Arianna's site. I guess it's possible somebody put up a stink, but my guess is that since she's decided she's no longer a candidate, that particular game wasn't necessary.

QUOTE (Matt Ottinger @ Oct 1 2003, 02:56 PM)

QUOTE Tell who? If they go after one, they have to go after everybody SO not true. The police don't have to go after every speeder, the RIAA doesn't have to go after every illegal downloader.

I should clarify.

If they go after one, it makes sense to go after the others. Doesn't make sense to go just after one.

Point taken.

Cool. I heard once that Playboy had somebody in their legal department whose only job was to patrol the internet, look for copyright infringements (typically nudie scans) and threaten the offending webmaster.

In the first place, imagine whispering THAT job to John Daly! But more to your original point, I wonder where the break-even point for something like that is. I mean, how does a company decide which copyright offenses are worth going after, and which are allowed to slide? A few small-potatoes examples have been mentioned here at the Forum in the last few days, including that public-access Family Feud ripoff. But where are the BIG-potatoes examples?

I would think the Playboy job would involve big potatoes.

Is that what we're calling them now?

QUOTE (SplitSecond @ Oct 1 2003, 03:26 PM)

I would think the Playboy job would involve big potatoes. (er, can we stop this line of questioning? Miss Francis?)

Yes, and some very important companies, too...

Uhm, I went to that link, and (call me stupid) I don't know which file to look at to see whats in question, someone care to direct me to the right file?

Thanks!

QUOTE (NicholasM79 @ Oct 1 2003, 06:09 PM)

Uhm, I went to that link, and (call me stupid) I don't know which file to look at to see whats in question, someone care to direct me to the right file? Thanks!

Well, it may be gone now, since Ariana has dropped out of the race.

Brandon Brooks

QUOTE (NicholasM79 @ Oct 1 2003, 04:09 PM)

Uhm, I went to that link, and (call me stupid) I don't know which file to look at to see whats in question, someone care to direct me to the right file?

If you'll look up six posts above your own, you'll see that Matt said the link no longer exists on the site in question.

Has anyone ever heard of "Come on Down," which is apparently a dance remix of the TPIR music? My friend told me about this one, which needless to say, has left me wanting more ;-)

QUOTE (JMFabiano @ Oct 1 2003, 09:14 PM)

Has anyone ever heard of "Come on Down," which is apparently a dance remix of the TPIR music? My friend told me about this one, which needless to say, has left me wanting more ;-)

It's the Crystal Waters theme mentioned above

Earler, I said:

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At any rate, the "quiz" link is no longer on Arianna's site. I guess it's possible somebody put up a stink, but my guess is that since she's decided she's no longer a candidate, that particular game wasn't necessary.

Well, I've now been told by a fan who wishes to remain anonymous that Score DID learn about the unlicensed use of their music, and that the whole "Match The Candidate" quiz was removed from the site a few days ago, before Arianna dropped out of the race.

So maybe Arianna's potatoes weren't so small after all!