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Who has the rights to publish the music of a game?
Hey,
there are many games with music that I like and that don't have a soundtrack CD released yet. Therefore I would like to ask the people who have the rights to create and sell such CDs to do so, but I don't know which persons that are. Is it the composer of the songs or the publisher of the game or maybe someone else? If it's the publisher who will have the rights when he's bankrupt and doesn't exist anymore? If it's the composer who gets the rights when he dies? Some popular examples of games like this are: * Sonic 3 & Knuckles * Spyro 1,2,3 * Ratchet & Clank 1,2,3 * Rayman 1,2,3 Thanks in advance for any helpful tips. |
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It can be awfully complicated. Companies usually secure the rights for a certain time period. A lot of the specifics can be worked out through a contract though. Various things come into play, e.g. author can be a regular employee of the company or a freelance who gets hired for a specific work etc.
Rights can't last forever and all works will eventually enter the public domain. PD for game music isn't of use to any of us because we'll be long gone when it happens. For example the US law: Spoiler:
But before entering the PD, assuming the author had the relevant rights at the time of death and not compan(ies) which may still hold some of them, the successors get them. In any case, you asking the right person/company to release the OSTs will hardly make a difference. |
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If you got some capital you could always try finding out where music rights belong, ten licensing said music and putting out a release yourself . A few labels like Data Discs and Brave Wave are doing so actually.
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