Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Guitar Hero World Tour Won't Allow Copyright Infringement

Posted by Soulskill on from the to-be-expected dept.

1Up did an interview with two of the developers for Guitar Hero: World Tour about the process of creating the game. One of the interesting things they mention is that they won't be putting up with people who use the song creation tools to make covers of existing songs. "We'll be actively monitoring the site. And, obviously, if the copyright holder complains, Activision will pull it down immediately. We can't condone people putting up covers of music. It's really there for original content." We discussed the creation tools themselves recently. Since then, Activision has announced that they'll be including a MIDI sequencer to assist with making your own tunes.

2 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. I wonder if... by megamerican · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if "covers" of songs made with Mario Paint ever get DMCA take down notices.

    --
    If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
  2. Get the PC version by rtechie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're just MIDI guitar tracks, widely used with FretsOnFirehttp://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/.

    There will almost certainly be a way to work around this on the PC, mainly because NOBODY is going to use the PITA creation tools on the 360 and PS3. It's almost infinitely easier to do it with a MIDI sequencer.

    Annoyingly, it looks like the MIDI songs will only be usable on the PS3, not the 360. It is probably due to their tools being MIDI-to-USB. The PS3 is pure USB so that's why it works on that platform.

    This is highly annoying for me, because I was going to get the 360 version and I wanted to import my own MIDI tracks. Looks like I'm going to HAVE to go with the PC version now. Does anybody know if the 360 instruments are the same as the PC instruments?