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It's illegal to use copyrighted music on free music game?
I have a music visualizer made in unity and i have worked on a database of songs that i manually update but i was wondering if it's illegal to release the visualizer with this copyright and royalty free music database integrated. I actually made this database because it's difficult to download songs and convert them to ogg and then upload them somewhere for just listening to them once. Also sorry for my bad english.
For legal advice, best to look somewhere dedicated to legal issues. $$anonymous$$usic is, I think, a pretty complicated area, but lots of places to read on it.
In general, @Owen Reynolds is absolutely right: you should never rely on any internet source for authoritative legal information.
In this particular case, however, the answer's pretty clear-cut: copying other people's music unless you have the right to do so is a breach of copyright (the clue is in the name :)
If the songs were made by someone else and are not in the public domain you need their permission to redistribute them either by written consent or in the form of a free, open-source type of license. So yes, it would be illegal unfortunately.
Oh, that's bad, but thanks for solving my doubt. I think i need to implemment a limiter to only show royalty free songs to the users
well you can have the players add the music themselves (but not publically) to avoid the copyright. for example - you can have a "add music" button, which opens the dialog box to choose the song, but it doesn't add in the database
Just googled how the populair Facebook game songpop does it: https://www.quora.com/Do-name-that-tune-apps-like-SongPop-license-their-music . So yes, it's highly illigal. You'll have to purchase a license to do it.
