Nickelodeon rips off Tobacco for promo spot

http://www.vice.com/read/did-nickelodeon-just-rip-off-this-electronic-musician-902

He shouldn't care. The original is much better.

Fuck Nickelodeon

sounds like terrible promo music, maybe that's why they used it. Needed approval and attribution of course.

He's handling it well, it's got to be frustrating. At some point plagiarism became a lot easier to pull of legally, especially when those with more legal power pull it off.

There's been a trend of bigger entities (corporations, major media outets, etc) hiring producers to make "style" imitations. Black Keys had Pizza Hut use their hit song but in a karaoke backing track rendition

VW literally aped Beach House after they declined multiple offers of licensing their music.

this is the song VW commissioned:

this is the one they asked Beach House to use:

You're basically damned if you don't license something, assuming they even ask.

There was a commercial a couple years ago that was a blatant rip of Bibio's Lovers Carvings. I seem to remember even Bibio acknowledging it too

oh noes

  On 8/20/2014 at 1:12 AM, Avarik said:

Fuck Nickelodeon

100%

  On 8/21/2014 at 4:16 AM, joshuatx said:

this is the song VW commissioned:

 

You're basically damned if you don't license something, assuming they even ask.

oh lol, that is tragic.

it's like they fed the beach house track through a pitch correction program to get it playing a different melody and lost all of the feeling and melodic flow from the original.

tobacco seems to've had his fun in return by aping nickeloden for a bit on the internets.

  On 8/23/2014 at 11:54 PM, osobjornmedved said:

Nickelodeon took down their rip-off version so fast... I really wanted to hear how terrible it was.

damn, I wish i had internet foresight to know what to save copies of when i see it.

it was pretty funny. it had a lot of the same ingredients, simple / raw sounding synths, drums etc. melodies were pretty much the same but different (ala any advertisement ripoff track). it just sounded super weak and clean.

All I know is that Nickelodeon needs to get Sam & Cat to settle their differences and get back in the air!

how about a Sam & Cat on Tobacco sandwich

  On 8/21/2014 at 4:16 AM, joshuatx said:

He's handling it well, it's got to be frustrating. At some point plagiarism became a lot easier to pull of legally, especially when those with more legal power pull it off.

 

There's been a trend of bigger entities (corporations, major media outets, etc) hiring producers to make "style" imitations. Black Keys had Pizza Hut use their hit song but in a karaoke backing track rendition

 

 

VW literally aped Beach House after they declined multiple offers of licensing their music.

 

this is the song VW commissioned:

 

this is the one they asked Beach House to use:

 

You're basically damned if you don't license something, assuming they even ask.

Dude i like that style mock. It's more ashy, what I always wished beach house would do.

Here is the Tobacco Man.