Song of the Week - Chocobo's Happy Christmas precedent debate

I abstain. Like I emphasized in the voting thread, I personally don't care what the ruling is, as long it is (relatively) unambiguous, and can subsequently be enforced consistently.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I guess one thing I'd like to know is why the "professional" fan-arrangements exception clause exists in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I'm as big a doujin fan as the next guy, and I'm all for getting them some extra exposure. But to me the clause seems like a fairly arbitrary loophole, designed to allow a few favorites from select arrangers like S.S.H. and MintJam to slip in.

I dunno, it just seems like roundabout way of nominating popular Square/Nintendo/etc. tracks, since the actual originals would never be eligible otherwise. I mean, is there any other real rationale behind saying that as long as somebody happened to work on a few commercial H-games later on, all their previous arrangements suddenly retroactively become fair game?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Besides the fact that it was played with axes instead of saws.

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