“Vinyl Fantasy 7″ mash-up mix pulled due to copyright claim

Posted by Natalie Zutter , Feb, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

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I don’t know a lot about video-game music, but I can appreciate anything set to a techno beat; so I was excited to download Tim Jacques’ (aka Team Teamwork) Vinyl Fantasy 7, which mashes up Jay-Z and Ghostface Killah with the famous Final Fantasy score. Yet only a few days after the long-awaited follow-up his original mash-up, Jacques was forced to pull it from the music-sharing site Bandcamp. Even though he was offering fans the prerogative to decide how much to spend — in essence, taking donations rather than making any profit — the copyright claim still stands for the samplings. You’ve gotta love his argument/optimism:

“Mixtapes by their very nature are bootlegs. Aside from the whole DJ Drama fiasco a few years ago, the law has been very lenient toward that media. …It’s impossible to remove something from the internet. So, even if I’m not distributing it, somebody out there probably is.”

Personally, it’s not as if Jay-Z was trying to corner the market on geeks, so why would his people feel the need to stop a guy making Final Fantasy mash-ups? To be fair — Jacques doesn’t know who actually filed the claim against him. I’m just making an argument. Do you think that his Team Teamwork tracks, as well as other mixes, should remain on the Internet?

[Via/image source: Wired]

Tags: copyright, Final Fantasy, music, video games