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Tweaker · Nov 14, 2005

First off, let me explain my situation as to clarify how I came to my claim. (which I will state later)

I'm watching Adult Swim, and it's on the second run through. Family Guy was on, and it had just cut to the commercials. The standard commercials came on at first... Boondocks Ad, witty [adult swim] bumps, etc. But one single commercial caught my eyes.. Or ears, persay. It was a commercial for a home selling company called "Quality Homes of Rochester. (I live in New York, so yeah.) This commercial intrigued me first by the tubular bells playing... I thought, "Heh, this sounds familiar. Prolly gonna be another one of those cheap ripoffs of a song to bypass a lawsuit." However, after listening a little bit further, I realized the stunning fact.

THEY FUCKING STOLE ICE PARADISE'S BGM FROM SONIC ADVANCE 2!

EVERYTHING was there. The annoying organ sample, the tubular bells, the exact notes, exact samples, EVERYTHING! Even the synth-like lead that comes in after a while.

I couldn't get to sleep to well after that; I just sat up in my bed, literally going WTF. There's gotta be a major lawsuit or something coming from this unless they have consent to use the song, which I doubt.

I'm seriously considering contacting SEGA about this, as this personally offends me as a great lover of the music in Sonic.

The website of Quality Homes of Rochester is located at http://www.qualityhomesrochester.com/

Quickman · Nov 14, 2005

Do it. Nobody deserves to have their work stolen, not even Sega.

LocalH · Nov 14, 2005

The people to contact would be your cable company (or satellite if they do local insertion), since that was probably a locally inserted spot. In fact, if it pisses you off that bad, keep an eye out for it on other cable stations (and local ones as well).

Sonic 65 · Nov 14, 2005

What the fuck. The Rochester Homes salespeople deserve to be shot. Start a lawsuit plz.

Timecrash · Nov 14, 2005

...Wow. Go for the lawsuit, they deserve to get owned.

Qjimbo · Nov 14, 2005

Maybe the director heard the music in the game, thought it was perfect for the ad, and licenced it from SEGA/Wavemaster?

Tweaker · Nov 14, 2005

QJimbo said:

Maybe the director heard the music in the game, thought it was perfect for the ad, and licenced it from SEGA/Wavemaster?
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Doubtful. I'm going to try and get in contact with these people to see if they can revise the ad, or at least see if they have consent. Once I do, we'll go from there.

Tweaker · Nov 14, 2005

Double post, sorry. Here's what I've sent...

Hello. I'm not sure if you're the right person to talk to about this, nor if I'm wrong in my following assumptions. If I am, please feel free to correct me at any time and I would like to apologize for bothering you in advance.

I saw your most recent (Is it recent? I'm not sure) advertisement on Time Warner cable the other night on channel 58 at about 2:30-2:40 AM. This ad, while stating information about your services, played a certain piece of music in the background. I have attached this song to this message, in case you are unclear as to what I am talkng about. As you may or may not know, this song is from a Sega Licenced game called Sonic Advance 2, for the Game Boy Advance portable gaming system. This song is copyright of WaveMaster studios, Sega corporaton, and the song's composer. I was wondering if you have written consent by all withholders of the song's copywright. If not, I'd like to ask you to revise the advertisement to not include the music, as to avoid copywright infringement issues. If you were to refuse, I'm afraid I'd have to inform Sega of your actions and have possble legal action taken against you.

I'm an avid fan of Sega's work, and it offends me that someone would steal music like that without consent (assuming this claim proves valid, please ignore this if I am mistaken.). Please respond back with your argument.

~Dustin Wyatt
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Guess we'll see how this goes, eh?

Tiberious · Nov 14, 2005

Proof plz.

Can you get a video of the commercial? I'll wanna hear it before I pass judgement.

Aurochs · Nov 14, 2005

The letter you should have written:

Hello. I'm not sure if you're the right person to talk to about this, nor if I'm wrong in my following assumptions. If I am, please feel free to correct me at any time and I would like to apologize for bothering you in advance.

I saw your recent advertisement on Time Warner cable the other night on channel 58 at about 2:30-2:40 AM. [Add date] This ad, while stating information about your services, played a certain piece of music in the background. I have attached the song in question to this message, in case you are unclear as to what I am talking about. As you may or may not know, this song is from a Sega licenced game called Sonic Advance 2, for the Game Boy Advance portable gaming system. This song is copyright of WaveMaster studios, Sega Corporaton, and the song's composer. I was wondering if you have written consent by all of the song's copyright holders. If not, I suggest you to revise the advertisement to use a different background piece, so as to avoid copyright infringement issues. If you refuse to do this, I'm afraid that I will have to inform Sega of your actions, thus exposing you to legal action.

I'm an avid fan of Sega's work, and it offends me that someone would steal music like that without consent (assuming this claim proves valid, please ignore this if I am mistaken). Please respond with your justification.

~Dustin Wyatt
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Much better.

Ultima · Nov 14, 2005

Why do you assume its stolen?

Tweaker · Nov 14, 2005

Tiberious said:

Proof plz.

Can you get a video of the commercial? I'll wanna hear it before I pass judgement.
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Um... It was on pretty late last night. I don't have a video, nor the means to create one with sound at this time. If someone else in the Rochester area wants to help and record it, it'd be greatly appreciated.

I do see your point though; Makng claims of this multitude without providing proof at first is pretty suspicious. I assure you though, my claim is valid.

Seven Force · Nov 14, 2005

Ultima said:

Why do you assume its stolen?
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Because it's unlikely that some random estate agent would be able to foot the bill to use Sega's music and images.

And their web-presence sucks.

Travelsonic · Nov 14, 2005

Seven Force said:

Ultima said:

Why do you assume its stolen?
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Simple, it wasn't stolen - it was copyright infringed :lol: *NUKE*

EDIT: Yes, for those who can't understand, it IS a joke, mainly for being inconsistent using "infringing cppyright" and stealing in the same sentence.

*DOUBLE NUKE*

Heran Bago · Nov 14, 2005

Sega should be happy that Quality Homes of Rochester likes their music enough to put in an ad. =P

PicklePower · Nov 15, 2005

Who in the company is playing video games like that, especially somewhat-crappy games?

stormislandgal · Nov 15, 2005

I have a digital camera, with sound recording capabilities(near perfect too). The problem is that when I transfer it to my computer, the sound dissapears, or gets so staticy that trying to listen to it is impracticle.

Kogen · Nov 15, 2005

I've seen the same thing several times, I was just assuming Sega ripped off some old Christmas song. Glad to see others have noticed it too. Though it does seem rather stupid if they have actually stolen this from the game, anyone with common sense wouldn't do it. And I have seen a few EA Games(C&C: Generals, Simcity 4) have their music in commericals and just general TV shows such as those crime investigating ones; commerical being a razor blade one, so it is common for game companies to do this without noticing the public. But EA seem more generally like whores than Sega. Really would like to see their responce to your message.

LOst · Nov 15, 2005

Let Sega handle their own business. Next time you are the one getting sued for borrowing Sonic for your own use.

Travelsonic · Nov 15, 2005

What L0st said, + Don't accuse unless you know for sure they used things without permision - you never know... you don't see a war between Konami and Saab because they both use "Ready Steady Go!" by Paul Oakenfold (Saab in a commercial, Konami in Dance Dance Revolution) EDIT: Ok, BAD example. :blushing:

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