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DooM Remix Project - The Dark Side of Phobos

Posted by Zonk on from the your-music-is-about-to-die dept.

djpretzel writes "The Dark Side of Phobos is the latest in a series of site projects at OverClocked ReMix, which each provide unofficial, non-commercial fan arrangements of entire game soundtracks (Sonic 2, Kirby, Donkey Kong Country, and Super Metroid, to date). This latest addition covers id software's perennial classic, the original DooM, with 23 tracks by 19 artists. More information is available at doom.ocremix.org, or simply download the torrent with both mp3 and lossless FLAC, site unseen. Mars never sounded so good."

2 of 49 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Legal implications by aaron+p.+matthews · · Score: 4, Informative

    I worked on this project, I was one of the coordinators for a while.

    The music of Doom has been around for 10+ years and while some tunes bear a striking resemblence to certain Slayer/Pantera songs, the copyright holders have not taken any legal action against id or Bobby Prince.

    So yes, I looked into that particular legal implication. It took me all of 2 seconds to realize we have little to worry about.
    cheers.

  2. Re:Legal implications by aaron+p.+matthews · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, getting a cease-and-desist from Bobby Prince is much more likely than getting one from Slayer/etc..

    The difference with vgmusic was they hosted the exact copies of Bobby Prince's material whereas we are providing derivative works.

    Ocremix has been around for years, and we've had derivative works of Doom music on the site for years as well.

    Bobby Prince has shown no animosity to ocremix in the past and I see it unlikely he will suddenly have a change of heart with the release of this project.
    cheers.