How 2 avoid copyright

[hardtofindinthefuture]

So im makin a game, and i want radio stations

 

So would it still be illegal if i were to just embed like youtube/spotify into my game for the "radio stations"

[Oshino Shinobu]

Depends what music you use. Best way to avoid copyright infringement is to use music that is copyright free. 

 

As for embedding youtube or spotify into the game, that would still be copyright infringement, unless it actually requires the user to sign in to Spotify or just includes a web-browser that can access Youtube. Using songs that are uploaded from those services, even if the game itself doesn't include the files, is still copyright infringement. 

 

EDIT: Even if you're using "copyright free" music, it's important to double check any licensing there may be on it. You may find that it's free to download and use, but if you're using it in a commercial product that you're selling, it may have different requirements. 

[hardtofindinthefuture]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Depends what music you use. Best way to avoid copyright infringement is to use music that is copyright free. 

 

As for embedding youtube or spotify into the game, that would still be copyright infringement, unless it actually requires the user to sign in to Spotify or just includes a web-browser that can access Youtube. Using songs that are uploaded from those services, even if the game itself doesn't include the files, is still copyright infringement. 

 

 

So a embedded web browser running youtube would be copyright infringement 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, v0nn_toaster said:

So a embedded web browser running youtube would be copyright infringement 

Very likely, yes.

[Russy]

It depends,

 

I had a garrys mod server for a few years which was quite popular, never had any concerns of copyright infringement.

 

The best way however is to provide an ingame browser which the user can access YT from, not a browser that they can only access YT from.

 

 

Hope this helps

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

So a embedded web browser running youtube would be copyright infringement 

If the user can navigate to youtube and search for videos, then play them, that shouldn't be considered copyright as it could just be considered an elaborate web browser. However, if it was just a component that used Youtube as the source for music, it's copyright infringement. 

 

 

[CryptoMatt]

if music is copyright dont use it, if you dont know if it is or not google it, chances are it is unless it says specifically thats its not. or you can pay the recording artist to use their music but i dont think you can afford that 

[CryptoMatt]

8 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Very likely, yes.

eh gmod does it all the time and i dont see an issue. they have servers dedicated to it. 

[Andreas Lilja]

They probably won't care unless you profit from it.

[LogicalDrm]

8 hours ago, CryptoMatt said:

eh gmod does it all the time and i dont see an issue. they have servers dedicated to it. 

They probably would, but since its only servers which might be donation based, not that big of issue vs whole game which makes profit partly using copyrighted music.

[asus killer]

in youtube you have the ads, it either screws the game or gets you in trouble with them if you do a work around to skip them