For me, I appreciate this choice. Not because I think the electro-swing was immersion breaking or anything, I just do not enjoy electro-swing despite that it would kind of make sense to be a further step for music in the fallout universe and my adoration of music genre blends.
The bombs fell in 2077 and they didn't stop making new songs in the 40s and 50s .
One of the challenges of developing the divergent future culture of Fallout is that while what we see in post-nuclear North America is the remains of a culture obsessed with '50s Americana, that culture was doing so in 2077, still some way into our future (for now..). Besides just laser guns and power annor, there are elements of Fallout that culturally reflect pieces of US culture that postdate the '50s but their popularity simply wasn't peaked like '50s Amencana did as of 2077. For instance, in Junktown, the character Ismarc sings a badly mangled rendition of Head Like A Hole, with came out in 1989. Presumably this means that Pretty Hate Machine cate out at some point in the Fallout universe, in some form, but by 2077 nobody cared about the Industrial Revolution or post-punk any more, they were all big into swing and jazz, much like how there was one month during the Pandemic in our real world where the internet was obsessed with sea shanties So, does anime exist in the Fallout universe? Yes. What form does it take? What's popular? How big is anime in 2077? We don't really have enough information to know, other than knowing that it wasn't reflected in mainstream US pop culture when the bombs fell and arrested the cultural symbols of the US. in the form of crumbling billboards and scorched ad pages. — Jesse Heinig
Oh boy, do I agree with the sentiment behind this mod, and love the song choices! But, afaik, aren't those songs still copyrighted??
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You simply can't take the rather unregulated Internet Archive's word for it. The problem certainly hasn't been helped by a past complicated legal situation and differences between the US, the UK/Commonwealth, and the EU, etc (note UK law, which covers Nexus, is actually the most strict). But today, the safest to go by internationally would prob be the USA's Music Modernization Act of 2018 which is a "catch all" to simplify the mess. In short, all music pre-1923 is free, 1923-1956 is protected for 100 years, and for later music it's 110 years.
Btw, many wrongly take "royalty free" as meaning "copyright free". But many royalty free recordings and other works (e.g., 2D art, 3D models, etc) are still actually copyrighted (to protect them from unregulated copies being published elsewhere). And when you upload a copy for downloading you (and Nexus as host) are indeed re-publishing it and thus would need to obtain a copyright permission.
These are indeed copyright free songs. They've been published as part of the Conelrad mod series which been hosted on the nexus since 2009, for over 15 years...
Furthermore this is a British website. Applicable UK/EU law states that copyright on music expires in 50 years, however it can be extended to 70 years pending a few requirements: - Music labels must re-negotiate with the artists on copyright and licensing. - The music must be publicly available for purchase. - The extension is NOT applied automatically it must be actively requested and demonstrated in court.
Ah, yes, I used to think that too. But under that UK law guide's "foreign works" section, if something is still protected under the law in its own country, then it's still protected here (as per their timing not ours - eg, a US work can't simply become free here if still protected in the US). And as those works are American they will come under the catch-all USA's Music Modernization Act of 2018. Yes of course many mods like FO3/FNV Conelrad will pre-date 2018 and thus I presume now be technically in breach of copyright.
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The file is clean, it is a false-positive on your end. Probably the super ancient .xwm audio format used by Bethesda games ticks it off.
Btw, many wrongly take "royalty free" as meaning "copyright free". But many royalty free recordings and other works (e.g., 2D art, 3D models, etc) are still actually copyrighted (to protect them from unregulated copies being published elsewhere). And when you upload a copy for downloading you (and Nexus as host) are indeed re-publishing it and thus would need to obtain a copyright permission.
Conelrad 640-1240 Civil Defense Radio (108k downloads, Fallout 3 hosted since 2009)
Conelrad 640-1240 Civil Defense Radio (401k downloads, New Vegas, hosted since 2010)
Conelrad 640-1240 Civil Defense Radio (37k downloads, Fallout 4 hosted since 2015)
Furthermore this is a British website. Applicable UK/EU law states that copyright on music expires in 50 years, however it can be extended to 70 years pending a few requirements:
- Music labels must re-negotiate with the artists on copyright and licensing.
- The music must be publicly available for purchase.
- The extension is NOT applied automatically it must be actively requested and demonstrated in court.
All of these songs exceed 70 years of age.
Neither of these is applicable to the songs in this mod, it is public domain. More info on the UK government's Intellectual Property Office website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-duration-of-copyright-term/copyright-notice-duration-of-copyright-term