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Music Operations' Anniversary Coming Soon; Preparing for Annual "Anniversary Statement"

Posted by Merit Celaire on Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 09:10 AM

Good morning, friends; as most of you faithful followers/listeners are already aware, we are a little over one week before our music operations as a whole marks its 12th anniversary.

I'm still currently sorting out some music operations stuff on the backend (slowly), but wanted to make sure to let you all know that yes, I am making preparations to deal with the formal "anniversary statement" in due time; however, even before I see about working on it at all (with the hopes that I can get it posted during later this month or the course of early next month), I definitely need everyone's input in terms of how should I approach writing the statement and what you believe I need to address for the rest of this year ahead.

So as an advance heads-up: I'm hoping that during the course of next week, I can get a temporary form up on this site so that all of you can file your responses in regards to what music operations related stuff I should focus on talking about in said upcoming statement.

Keep in mind: this will be dealt with after I've taken care of viewing today's "Nintendo Direct" presentation and posted a possible "Music Arrangements Outlook" article for if it any featured Mario game installments (main/spinoff/branched) are involved. Until then, as always, keep it bookmarked on this front page for any new developments music operations related between now and next week and I'll see you awesome people next time around. Take care for now.

"Nintendo Direct" Incoming For 2/9/'22

Posted by Merit Celaire on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 09:54 AM

Yet Another Major Videogame Music Fan Community Hit With "Legal Complaints"

Posted by Merit Celaire on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 09:27 AM

Good morning, friends; finally snagging the chance to catch up on general blog entry posts on this site music operations related (real life situations are still getting in the way, but pulling through slowly). But this one is not one of those posts, but still has a relation to all videogame music fan communities as a whole, including this one... which if my assumptions are correct, have been tragically impacted once again.

I'll redact the "name" of said person that was recently hit by "adversarial" forces, but I will say the following - they were also another "major user" via YouTube who was sharing a bunch of videogame music recordings either from the games themselves and/or soundtracks. And like I stated in this article from one to two years ago, their channel was in action for 10+ years (to the best of my knowledge) although I haven't been using them as much for "sources" to do my Super Nintendo music style arrangement covers for these operations.

But I will also say this, however: that same person recently got hit with a total of 1,000+ copyright claims regarding soundtracks that were (and still are) primarily owned by Nintendo; the worst part is, this wasn't the only time said person got an avalanche of complaints from Nintendo's legal departments (when they sent the red flags to YouTube's administration involving said user). But in both instances, it resulted in all the involved videos that apparently Nintendo owns the copyrighted materials to being blocked from viewing on YouTube. And just recently, when the YouTube channel owner got word of this news, it ultimately forced them to unfortunately shut the channel down.

Once again, as I stated in this article, I had no doubt in my conscience that when these kind of actions were done from the "legal side" of things (and of course, Nintendo is within their rights to protect all of their stuff which they rightfully have ownership to), we in the entire videogame music fan community have been put "on notice" and have been warned. And the legal departments at Nintendo have detetcted another "major threat" from said YouTube user whose account was shut down (by their own choice) which I have a very strong feeling was what the Nintendo legal departments were aiming for. That all said, this is still a very sad time for all of us in the videogame music fan community at large and now we have to definitely tread carefully from here on out because the Nintendo legal departments may be going after more users like this on YouTube if they are deemed a "major threat" to Nintendo's properties in general.

As for yours truly and for these music operations as a whole, you all know that it's my responsibility (and our operations' policy) to make sure that everything gets properly acknowledged on both featured musical scores for all games that Nintendo rightfully owns as well as the featured Super Nintendo music instrument sets being featured and used (because they are still owned by the respective users via copyright as well). Because if we don't do that, we'd literally be plagiarizing and that is the last kind of news that I want to encounter for all us here.

With that said, and if my assumptions are correct, the legal departments at Nintendo hit this said former YouTube user hard in hopes to send the message about this person committing "mass plagiarlism" of their stuff as well as possible "copyright theft". And this also reiterates the grim question of "if this person got hit with a massive amount of complaints via the YouTube platform, who's going to be next?"

So let's continue to proceed with caution and continue to give credits/acknowledgements where its due so we won't run into any more problems like this. Thanks in advance for your time to read this and I'll see you next time around. I'm out.

Latest "Twitter Portal" Polls Regarding Future SNES Music Style Arrangement Covers and a Recent "Mario Kart Tour" Song Cover

Posted by Merit Celaire on Friday, February 4, 2022 - 12:27 PM

Playing catch up regarding relaying of news here on this site because I've been dealing with a lot of "outside matters" the past few days, but rest assured that I'm not asleep on the backend. Especially since I'm still in the "planning stages" on how we're going to prepare to mark our "12th anniversary" of these beloved music operations as a whole later this month.

To the point of this posting: a few days ago, if you're a confirmed and active follower of our music operation's Twitter profile, then you may have noticed that a few days ago (this past Monday, to be exact), I posted two polls to conclude the previous month about certain matters; however, I've yet to receive response votes from you all on the said matters. The polls in question are the following:

* Planning Assistance to Slowly Clear Most Of The "Music Arrangements Progress Page" Backlog
* Poll Regarding The "Singapore Speedway" Song from Mario Kart Tour

Remember that if you do have a Twitter account and are a confirmed follower of us, then you're able to click the above links to see the posts and cast your votes while the polls themselves that have just been mentioned are still open. But this forewarning must still be said: your votes for these two aforementioned polls must be submitted before the end of 2/7/'22.

If you are not a "confirmed follower" of our respective music operation's profile on Twitter, then what are you waiting for? You're still able to go to this page and click on the "Follow" button to submit a follower request to me so that you can see the postings that we have made so far under our profile on the Twitter platform. Keep in mind that if there are any "follower requests" submitted for review during the course of this coming weekend after said announcement of this matter has been posted, I'll be reviewing them all during the course of this coming Monday (2/7/'22).

In any case, I still am ready and willing to hear from all of you voting wise in regards to these above mentioned polls via our Twitter profile page so please make sure you've taken care of your votes on them before they close before the end of this coming Monday. Many thanks in advance for your support on this and I'll see you awesome people later.

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