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A recent copyright action taken by Teenage Engineering against Florian Pilz's "Bad Gear" ‪@AudioPilz‬ channel exposes a dangerous precedent lurking in the license agreement buried inside Teenage Engineering's materials: They have severe restrictions on exactly how you can use their devices in your published music. Unless you comply with their licensing restrictions, they could actually have a copyright claim against you, your music or your performances! In this video I expose what is going on, and how to avoid legal issues.

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[–] JoeKis@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just to correct the post, AudioPilz said on Patreon That TE Copyright Strike His Video because he used a promotional video clip from them and not because from using a sample/synth from them, but that still is unacceptable from TE. Just to put my point: I always hated their "boutique" hipster overpriced products and will never buy anything from them.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m still pretty wary of a synth company wielding DMCA strikes. I’ve already had my music claimed by DMCA trolls and it just makes me not want to post on YT or TikTok anymore. Their products are for sampling. If they abuse their samples then I’ll go elsewhere.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Right? They could have easily reached out to him to deal with this if it's genuinely just about the clip being used.

Copystriking a popular creator in the audio production video category is bafflingly easy to identify as an action that will yield a backlash. Very very poor judgement on display

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good video. Now I know to never buy anything from Teenage Engineering... More like “teenage hissy fit“

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Most of their products are just gimmicky anyway. Like a music player that had a turntable that you could mess with, I mean sure I guess it sort of fun for like 10 minutes but, really?

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

TE are the SUPREME of the musicical instrument world.