Have really done anything but infringe on the creator's copyright? You may not be making money, but you are most certainly costing the copyright holder money. Of course, they also no longer need to go purchase the original album by the artist if they like the music. Now, everyone you give your "promo" to can hear how excellent you are at song arrangement. This is only for promotional purposes, so you can show how good you are at arranging songs, not to make money. Then you put the MP3s on a new CD, but in a different order You decompile the CD (rip the songs to MP3 files) You purchase a CD of a music album you like. Rearranging a sprite sheet from a copyrighted game is absolutely derivative work or an infringement.Īnd "promotion" does constitute a "commercial use" even if it is a loss-leader and not designed to make money directly. If the original copyrighted work can be discerned in any way, then at best you have derivative work, if not a direct infringement. There is no such thing as "change/transform it my X amount and it's okay." That's a very common misconception.
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