Vickiepedia » copyright http://vickiepedia.org the personal blog of Vickie Diablos [citation needed] Sat, 05 May 2012 06:47:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Stolen Background Music? http://vickiepedia.org/2009/04/15/stolen-background-music/ http://vickiepedia.org/2009/04/15/stolen-background-music/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:04:34 +0000 Vickie http://vickiepedia.org/?p=776 My brother alerted me to this first, but “The Storm Warriors” (風雲II), the upcoming sequel to a semi-popular Hong Kong movie, is using the first 22 or so seconds of the Guild Wars theme song on their official website. For a movie with a HK$100 million budget, you’d expect them to compose their own music (unless, of course, they bought the copyright to the song / had permission otherwise)!

Here is a sample of the Guild Wars (Guild Wars Prophecies) opening theme song: DirectSong > Guild Wars > 01 – Opening Theme.

Here is the movie’s official site: Traditional Chinese version, Simplified Chinese version or English version.

This is my expression after I heard the song on the movie’s official site: D:

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Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday, dear no-longer-little Little Brother Jacky!
Happy Birthday to youuuuu!

This is also probably Hong Kong’s most mis-sung song. And the lyrics are copyrighted? Outrageous! I’m so ignoring that.

Later, Vickie gets sued.

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