In a recent interview with 1UP, Neversoft's Brian Bright and PR for RedOctane, Aaron Grant discuss all things Guitar Hero World Tour. This includes such matters as removing any and all licensed songs from the user created download area. Uh-oh.
You can check out the rest of the three page interview over at 1UP.
1UP: Let me lay out a scenario for you. I get the game, and there's this awesome music creator, and I'm going to do the guitar track for "Stairway to Heaven." I'm going to make this. You know people are going to do that. And I make it, and I think it's awesome, and I play it, and I love it, and I'm like, "Other people are going to want to play this, so I'm going to upload it!" What happens when a guy like me wants to share his "Stairway to Heaven" guitar track with everyone else? Are you guys going to wait for someone to ask you take these things down? Or are you going to actively police that kind of thing?
BB: We'll be actively monitoring the site. And, obviously, if the copyright holder complains, Activision will pull it down immediately. We can't condone people putting up covers of music. It's really there for original content.
1UP: So you'll have to play copyright Whac-a-Mole? That's something you're expecting?
BB: Essentially, yeah.
1UP: What if there are things no one complains about? Would you look the other way?
AG: If there's a licensed song and someone holds the copyright to it, we'll take it down regardless of whether or not someone complains.
BB: We'll be actively monitoring the site. And, obviously, if the copyright holder complains, Activision will pull it down immediately. We can't condone people putting up covers of music. It's really there for original content.
1UP: So you'll have to play copyright Whac-a-Mole? That's something you're expecting?
BB: Essentially, yeah.
1UP: What if there are things no one complains about? Would you look the other way?
AG: If there's a licensed song and someone holds the copyright to it, we'll take it down regardless of whether or not someone complains.
You can check out the rest of the three page interview over at 1UP.