music file

moneytra1nmoneytra1n USAMember Posts: 19
in Art, Graphics, Music and Sound

Before i publish my game, Can I use the music version of a famous song on my game? its only the first 2 minutes of the song.

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  • dapiondapion Member, PRO Posts: 353

    Try it...but i think Apple will reject your app.

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  • moneytra1nmoneytra1n USAMember Posts: 19

    I'm not trying Apple because it cost money. Its my first time and I'm trying to put it in a free App Store.

  • moneytra1nmoneytra1n USAMember Posts: 19
    edited February 2015

    Im trying to save an image to my game before i upload it. But it keeps saying image must be 512x512.

  • moneytra1nmoneytra1n USAMember Posts: 19
    edited February 2015

    I'm trying to save an image as game icon. The image selected must have the dimensions of 512x512 px or 1024x1024 px. I keep getting this message an its annoying.

  • GnarlyGnarly canadaMember Posts: 840

    Change your image size to 512x512. Or it won't work.

  • LovejoyLovejoy Member Posts: 2,078

    @moneytra1n said:
    Before i publish my game, Can I use the music version of a famous song on my game? its only the first 2 minutes of the song.

    If you have permission then go right ahead. But if you don't, then i would advice against it. Start getting into having good habits, otherwise you are just setting yourself up for the future. Legal problems are not very pretty my friend.

    Fortuna Infortuna Forti Una

  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    edited February 2015

    @moneytra1n said:
    Before i publish my game, Can I use the music version of a famous song on my game? its only the first 2 minutes of the song.

    Only the first two minutes ! Lol :smile: . . . . No, of course you can't, the song is the property of the song writer / publisher and the actual recording (known as 'the mechanical') is owned by the record company (and/or the artist).

    You can contact the publisher and try and cut a usage deal, but it will be on limited terms, for example for one year, in one territory and for unit sales of less than XXX (and so on), they won't give you a blanket deal where you are free to use the song as you please, they would also have to approve the game too, how you are planning to promote it and so on.

    If you were free to use other people's songs in your game how would record companies make any money ? They release track A, you put it in your free iOS game (for example), any one who wants the track, can just download your game, they would have effectively lost control/ownership of the track.

    tl;dr Get a good lawyer :smile:

  • moneytra1nmoneytra1n USAMember Posts: 19

    Thank you guys!

  • moneytra1nmoneytra1n USAMember Posts: 19

    where can i find some free music files that i can put on my gamesalad?

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