Holy cow: was anyone aware of Square's iron policy on copyright?

Originally Posted by Elorin

Well, I've heard original FF8 and Xenogears music being used blatently in some old Taiwanese and Hong Kong drama serials. I really doubt the producers got permission from the then Square for permission (because they probably would have been rejected). As of today, I haven't heard any news in the papers about the drama serial producers getting into trouble.

Ohh someone who has seen what Ive seen! The Taiwan drama called Justice Bao ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Bao ) used alot of music from Resident Evil 2, like Ada's theme and the RPD police hall theme. Liber Fatali was used in a HK drama called "My date with a Vampire 2", which I believe is what you were refering to. Alot of anime music was used in the past as well, and FFX's Chocobo theme was used in a Jockey horse racing commericial for the Jockey cable channel 18 in Hong Kong.

I have never heard of Xenogears being used though, what show was that, or what scene was it played on?

The reason they do this? Simple, an average veiwer is not gonna regonise the music, only the gamers will, and I know alot of guy gamers in HK may regonise some FF music, but probably won't notice or bother with it too much. HK TV producers know they can get away with it cause its not that well known, and probably through some copyright loopholes as well. The only time such people were caught was a Taiwan recording company that used the theme song from the game "Air" and put it in some new hot shot singer's album as a piano track.

Fans send letters to the Company Key who made the game and they got in trouble, all CDs were recalled.

If it keeps happening, Im sure fans will start sending letters to tell them to knock it off. But a music CD probably has more evidence than a TV show, unless people bothered taping it.

I made a topic on this subject, we could try to carry it on there, any other VGM you heard from the Taiwan or HK shows?

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/ge...ia-events.html

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Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

I think it's solely to do with the fact there's no copyright law in Asia. I heard lots of American and Japanese copyright music in Chinese movies all the time; Star Wars, Aladdin, and some video game soundtracks just to name a few.


Okay, so I guess I was wrong?

I may not know the full behind the scenes, but thanks to Key, its safe to say that HK producers do it cause they get away with it, they used to use film music as well, I heard music from John William's Home Alone being used in an older HK drama as well. They stopped probably cause they know they're walking a thin line if they do it again.

Also the bastards at the record company that plagarised Air denied that they did anything wrong, claiming they did get the rights, but it wasn't finalised when the album was release, Key response summed it up as bullshit they made up to not lose face.

Before I know about Square's iron fist on everything they own, I wanted to report the stuff I saw on TV to them, but now I really don't think they deserve to know. Sure HK TV people are cheap bastards, but if Square's gonna get all uppity about it if they find out its their problem for not looking out. Interesting that despite their huge fan base in Taiwan and HK, no one reported this, guess Key is much more popular company than Square.

Going to Video Games Live and not seeing any Square image on the screen irked me. At least the guys behind the show compensate by getting Disney images to the KH music, and Cosplayers for One Winged Angel. Nice to see effort and fan tribute being used despite the company's iron fist, hope they are at least aware of their fans...

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