this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
47 points (94.3% liked)

Synthesizers

486 readers
3 users here now

A community for synth players to discuss patches, trends, gear, and anything else synth related.

Make sure to check out our friends at: https://midwest.social/c/[email protected]

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

A recent copyright action taken by Teenage Engineering against Florian Pilz's "Bad Gear" ‪@AudioPilz‬ channel exposes a dangerous precedent lurking in the license agreement buried inside Teenage Engineering's materials: They have severe restrictions on exactly how you can use their devices in your published music. Unless you comply with their licensing restrictions, they could actually have a copyright claim against you, your music or your performances! In this video I expose what is going on, and how to avoid legal issues.

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] JoeKis 7 points 2 days ago

Just to correct the post, AudioPilz said on Patreon That TE Copyright Strike His Video because he used a promotional video clip from them and not because from using a sample/synth from them, but that still is unacceptable from TE. Just to put my point: I always hated their "boutique" hipster overpriced products and will never buy anything from them.

[–] afk_strats 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good video. Now I know to never buy anything from Teenage Engineering... More like “teenage hissy fit“

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Most of their products are just gimmicky anyway. Like a music player that had a turntable that you could mess with, I mean sure I guess it sort of fun for like 10 minutes but, really?

[–] Cris_Color 2 points 2 days ago
[–] Thcdenton 1 points 2 days ago

TE are the SUPREME of the musicical instrument world.