Hey Lee! Is it okay if we want to use some cover music? Of course we will play the music ourselves!
I would look this up, as I'm not a lawyer either (I would myself, but I simply do not have time, some of the reasons obvious LOL!)...but I THINK the law is that you can copyright lyrics, but not melodies... In fact, if this were not the case, I can think of some professional artists that need to be placed under arrest xD... So if you are playing it, I think you're good if it's the melody.
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I used music that someone else wrote! I have credited them in my game’s itch page + github repo: https://avivajpeyi.itch.io/moonshot
@Lee – do you think I should remove this? I assumed that since the music file is royalty-free it should be ok?
Hey Avi, I’m not a lawyer either, but the important thing here is the licence terms you got the music under. It’s from Pixabay, yeah? The Pixabay licence says you can use it for free, commercially or non-commercially, as-is or modified, as long as you’re not putting it on another stock-music website, selling it unmodified, or using it in a way that portrays someone negatively or implies any brand of theirs is associated with you. As long as you’re not doing that, you should be fine. (The question, as I understand it, was about making your own version of someone else’s music, possibly without their permission, which is not what you’ve done.)