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Quick and Friendly Reminder About Our "Interactivity/Social Media Portals" for February 2022

Posted by Merit Celaire on Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 11:04 AM

Good morning, friends - just a quick and friendly reminder to all of you that our music operations related "interactive/social media portals" are still in need of new folks that are definitely interested and wanting to keep tabs on what yours truly has been doing to create new Super Nintendo music styled arrangement covers focused on songs from the modern Super Mario videogame series (including main installments, spinoff installments, and even branched installments) - especially as we close in on marking our 12th anniversary next week.

As stated before, the only two angles which definitely require manual approval for new join/follower requests are if you have a Twitter account and want to follow our profile page there and/or if you have a Discord account and want to see about joining our server there (via filling out this form and obtaining a temporary invite link after getting approval). Remember that any new requests that I receive from these two angles will be reviewed during the course of 24 - 48 hours during the Monday - Friday timeframe (excluding major holidays that falls within that work week).

Also, don't forget to follow us on the SoundCloud end if you have an account there too; the supporter count there has steadily been growing which really means a lot to me (thanks to all of you who are keeping tabs with yours truly over there so far). And finally, even though it's techincally the least used - our IRC channel via EsperNet still exists so make sure to check it out as well and grow that follower base there too.

But keep in mind that for all interactive portal/social media portal angles, make sure that you definitely meet the "criteria" for these music operations as a whole which is described on this page. This ensures that we definitely have the right people on board who are supporting our cause.

Finally, as for the "Forum Portal" - I know I have said this many times, but I really, really, really haven't forgotten about it. Too many real life situations as well as this COVID-19 pandemic have been getting in my way in making progress on this front, but that's for a separate post. This is, however, on my to do list after dealing with some other important music operations related stuff, so stay tuned.

Until then, faithful friends/followers, I thank you all in advance for continuing to keep track of all activity of these music operations as a whole; see you all next time around. I'm gone for now.

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.

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