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Back in the day there was a lot of copying of pop tunes by 8 bit

musicians - the C64 demoscene for example, and even in commercial

games - I recall one of Jean Michelle Jarre's pieces as the intro

music to Yie Ar Kung Fu! for example - which I am not sure was

licensed??
Still, in my opinion, no-one beat Rob Hubbard.. but even he did some

copying of JMJ's stuff - Zoolook IIRC.
James
On 1/4/12, James Warden  wrote:

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> Hello,

>

> I recently tried to help James Morris with the Arnold TNG emulator. By doing

> so, I tried the ZapTBall game provided by the Arnold TNG website and to my

> surprise, the music theme is a near copy of the old Depeche Mode song called

> "Photographic".

>

> Here is a link to the Depeche Mode song:

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUP5W10wGEA

> If you jump to 1mn27sec, you will hear the melody that the game is using.

> Not only this melody but also the subsequent solo and tone changes are

> nearly the same. Does someone know this ZapTBall game and whether the music

> theme is legal ? It sounds to me like a case of plagiarism.

>

> J.

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