I read about this over the weekend and thought it would be pretty relevant, especially since we'll be working with sounds that are part of the Creative Commons (although we won't be doing anything commercial).
Crystal Castles is an '8-bit' band; they're apparently pretty popular (they're the opening act for Nine Inch Nails). In numerous songs they have used other musical artists' work directly or only slightly modified it, never attributing their sources. They have also been printing t-shirts with an image by a visual artist who never gave the band consent to use it.
Here's an article at Create Digital Music
Visual artist Trevor Brown's blog, addressing the issue of the t-shirts. His blog is kosher, but please bear in mind that Brown makes art that generally you wouldn't want to browse from work.
The original place I found out about this was on the forums of the website Something Awful - Original Post
Found it interesting that now that they're famous they're drawing a lot of heat. Any thoughts on this?
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