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Now, I have literally no knowledge of copyright law and how it applies to like-sounding covers, especially of easily recognizable work, but considering that George Harrison, Michael Bolton, Johnny Cash, and Vanilla Ice haven’t managed to avoid large out of court settlements for infringement, it’s at the very least frowned upon. Not that it matters, but it’s funny to find this video directly above the “Creator-Driven” banner.I called up Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and they didn’t know anything about the video at all, so they transferred me to Viacom’s Marketing Department, who had even less of an idea and transferred me to their New York Marketing Department, who didn’t know about the existence of the Animation Studio at all and redirected me to a dead end, who told me “I don’t know who would know that information, that’s why they’re bouncing you around,” and politely hung up.
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Thomas Fec: Someone just like sent it to me, asking me. They thought it was mine, and were like “Oh! You’re doing Nickelodeon now, that’s so cool!” and I’m like “I don’t remember doing that at all…”How do you feel about the rip?
Honestly, like everyone’s telling me that I should care, but I kinda don’t care. I don’t know why I don’t care. I probably should care. It seems like I can’t even blame Nickelodeon, I wouldn’t expect them to know every single song that’s out there, you know what I mean? They probably have no idea, they probably just hired some guy to just give them a song, I mean really it’s whatever scrote made the song that’s to blame. I guess I should be bothered but I’m not.So what are you gonna do about it, nothing?
No, I might if it was on TV… but maybe it is, I don’t even know. If this was something bigger then I’d probably do something, but it might just be smarter to not do anything and let this scrotey guy keep ripping these songs. Hopefully he pitches it to somebody like Pizza Hut someday so I can actually get something out of a lawsuit.Do you think you’re within your rights to sample their version of your song for a new song?
The only thing that bothers me is that they’ve cut what I’ve done and just like they’ve made it so cheap sounding. Like anytime someone hears my music and they hate me for what I do, that’s what they’re hearing in what I do. You know what I mean? Like, whatever that shittiness is. I could never sample something that sounded that bad.Have you done any work for Nickelodeon?
I did a song once for Yo Gabba Gabba!, but I don’t know what channel that was on.What instrument are you making that “high-pitched fuzz” sound with? Sounds like a sustained engine rev?
Probably just a monosynth, like an octave cat or something.I’m surprised you’re so chill about such a scrotey move.
I put out those Fucked Up Friends DVDs with little clips from old videos from the 80s and 90s, and I do understand appropriating a piece of work—taking something and making it into something new. At least I’m trying to see it that way.Follow Jules Suzdaltsev on Twitter.