Riince wrote:
there are no pirated songs
the only songs that have been removed from the pool thus far are skrillex and beatmania songs
every song is being used fairly unless otherwise disputed, like with the above cases
u wot m8?
I can gurantee you most of the songs here are not licensed under a fair use license nor creative commons license, so you're not allowed to upload/use/download them here.
Take
Beyonce - Pretty Hurts as example.
The copy right holder for that song is Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, and the song is sold commercially by them. On
iTunes as example.
So why exactly is it fair use to make it available for download here? Theres nothing fair use about this, osu! does not own the rights to distribute the song.
Same goes for songs like that anime opening, the copyright holder is the respective anime publisher and they're trying to make money with this song (by selling it in the anime or alone with special disc mercandise). Again, nothing fair use here.
However, much like with anime streaming sites, if a song is not licensed* in the land you're distributing it to (*which means it is not being sold there) the publisher will usually not complain since theres no profits to be lost, only costs to be made by legal actions.
Still, the whole thing is not legal at all, the situation described above is at best a legal gray zone. The Beyonce song? Very much illegal for you, since it is being sold in the US.
