Tanzklaue wrote:
Sakura wrote:
Vocaloid is an instrument created by the program Vocaloid (or is it Vocaloid 2?), There's no real singer in the song, so like instrumental songs, you use the composer as an artist.
which is stupid, because nobody on the whole wide world considers the creator as the artist.
I don't think that you should consider Vocaloid as an instrument, it's a voice, and as such the program itself is much more of an artist than in normal synthesizers.
also, the songlisting will get messed up. you have one composer, but 5 different vocaloid, while you searched for example for all miku songs
this whole rule is just confusing, and complicated. it really should be the other way around, since most of us know the vocaloids, but not the composers.
Why bother with such licensing stuff? We people do appreciate and credit the creators by placing the composer's name in the Source, it's already visible enough to the ones curious of its creator. Let's say those people on youtube uploading vocaloid songs out of NND, I didn't even see one that tells about illegaly having the claim, so far. They give Vocaloid names, but also the creator and NND source, and they're fine for years.
So let's just go back, most people searched out and know much more with the vocaloid singer instead of composer. We shouldn't have to worry about licensing since this isn't a paid commercial game, it's a community driven F2P game! Why bother? If that licensing issue really happens to everyone, then nobody in the world would have said vocaloid singer's name to all who helped sharing a vocaloid song to people all around the world, it feels like saying a vocaloid singer is forbidden to the community if it really happens, like that would it ever happen.
We on Osu! created beatmaps to make songs more repeatable and playful to us all. We don't claim the song itself, we instead would have helped the creator making the song more popular! It's a song creator's dream, after all, having someone being able to make his own song "playable" by making a beatmap of it!
It's just my opinion. So don't take it too seriously.