Ever heard Game Music being used in other media or events?

Have you guys ever heard game music, or even anime music used in media or events other than games? Like say a ballet performance or a TV show?

I unfortunatly experience alot of the latter, which I dont think its nesscary a good thing.Alot of Hong Kong TV shows (particulaly the cable TV shows and the ATV channels) used alot of music from games and anime, straight from the Soundtrack, and I find it hard to believe that different companies gave them licences to use music from FF8, Resident Evil, Magic Knight Rayearth and other ones I probably dont know in their *crappy* shows, and they were all in one I believe) Hell I even heard the FFX Chocobo theme used in a Jockey Horse Racing commericial, which disgusted me. And ever since I heard of the Plagarising of the theme song from Air, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_%28...29#Controversy ), I feel that game music is being robbed and exploited to use for commercialism or shows that are so crappy they don't deserve it. ( One extreme case had used John Williams score to Home Alone in the BG for a frantic sequence when Hawkers in HK are all running away in panic cause the cops are coming, they probably switched to game and anime cause less people know them)

On a postive side, a friend of mine who figure skates has heard people using music from games to use as BG music for figure skating, and she said both the skating and the music complimented each other well and was performed lovely.

Anyone have experience with either? Do you remember what music was used? Was it a postive reaction for you or negative?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, but VGM and anime music is VERY popular in HK, I'm sure a lot of fans have noticed them being used in the HK drama shows, but they probably didnt care enough to report it or something, the Air theme song was different cause it was in a album of some Singapore artist, and they didnt credit any of the composers. Instead of a passing thing like an episode of a show, this was a CD being sold with a plagairsed song, and luckily thanks to fan complaints and reporting to Key, it was answered and actions were taken.

It's naive of the producers to think they can get away with it (its a Taiwan company) when the song is popular among anime fans in HK and Taiwan.

I'd probably send a letter to Square or the other companies that own the music I heard, cept I didnt tape any of them, and they friggin used too many music from different games and anime in one show. It's probably not worth the effort and I don't usally catch them till its over.

Interesting to hear that there are English commercials that used VGM.

And I thought that Ninetendo and Square have USA departments here, if they noticed they probably would have reported to the Japan departement, obviously it wasn't reported or not many really noticed. Its not a matter of no laws or representatives to handle it cause its a foriegn country (look at the Air theme song, it was plagarised in Taiwan and legal action was threatened.), it just that people didn't notice it, but when they do, then those people get in trouble. There are copyright laws everywhere, and just cause the song or music its from another country and is less known in a particular place doesn't excuse it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Man I love to see videos of the performances, like to see how they choreograph it to VGM.

Dance of Curse was used in a drama, possibly HK? The one where the chorus chants Escaflowne in the whole piece? Wow.... Its like they WANT to get caught or something.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.