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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.

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[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month 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?

[–] JoeKis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I’m still pretty wary of a synth company wielding DMCA strikes. I’ve already had my music claimed by DMCA trolls and it just makes me not want to post on YT or TikTok anymore. Their products are for sampling. If they abuse their samples then I’ll go elsewhere.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

TE are the SUPREME of the musicical instrument world.