Hi Shaun,
Yeah, you can bet your fur those sounds and music are copyrighted.
However, there is a legal way to share them, and make a game very close
to Halo with music and sound without bringing down a bunch of legal crap
on your head. One way is by creating the game with a slightly different
story line, use different sounds, different music, etc in the official
release. However, unofficially release a Halo soundpack under a
different license agreement that says it is an unofficial sound pack for
game x, include any and all copyright and trade mark information, and
don't publically supportit. Kind of stepping through loopholes in the
copyright laws.
For example, my new treasure hunting series, Tomb Hunter, is a knock off
of Tomb Raider. Everybody knows that, but legally Edos can't do anything
about it because Angela Carter, Tomb Hunter, and even the stories are in
my own name. I own the copyrights for them. However, unofficially after
the release let us just say an unnofficial sound pack of music, Lara
Croft sound effects, gets passed around for the game and bingo you get
Tomb Raider. Just install the update and Tomb Hunter becomes Tomb Raider
complete with Lara Croft, official Tomb Raider music, icons, whatever.
If Edos does get peed off, tell me to ddrop the soundpack, no problem. I
still own the game and those who downloaded the soundpack will probably
put it up on send space, div share, file send, whatever and still be
publically available in one form or another.
Grin.
shaun everiss wrote:
not sure how legal this is but I have the soundtracks to halo, but I suspect
they are copywrited so I can't actually share these.
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