[LAU] [OT] Is this a case of pagiarism ??

[James Stone]

Back in the day there was a lot of copying of pop tunes by 8 bit
musicians - the C64 demoscene for example, and even in commercial
games - I recall one of Jean Michelle Jarre's pieces as the intro
music to Yie Ar Kung Fu! for example - which I am not sure was
licensed??

Still, in my opinion, no-one beat Rob Hubbard.. but even he did some
copying of JMJ's stuff - Zoolook IIRC.

James


On 1/4/12, James Warden <warjamy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently tried to help James Morris with the Arnold TNG emulator. By doing
> so, I tried the ZapTBall game provided by the Arnold TNG website and to my
> surprise, the music theme is a near copy of the old Depeche Mode song called
> "Photographic".
>
> Here is a link to the Depeche Mode song:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUP5W10wGEA
> If you jump to 1mn27sec, you will hear the melody that the game is using.
> Not only this melody but also the subsequent solo and tone changes are
> nearly the same. Does someone know this ZapTBall game and whether the music
> theme is legal ? It sounds to me like a case of plagiarism.
>
> J.