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    Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

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    337 points zdw | 11 comments | 27 Aug 25 21:08 UTC | HN request time: 1.475s | source | bottom
    1. ranger_danger ◴[27 Aug 25 21:47 UTC] No.45045725[source]▶
    How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?
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    2. cammikebrown ◴[27 Aug 25 22:27 UTC] No.45046112[source]▶
    Pffft, this is fair use
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    3. Animats ◴[27 Aug 25 22:50 UTC] No.45046289[source]▶
    Good question. The composer and artist of most of them in Japan is Minoru Mukaiya.[1] He's also the CEO of Ongakukan, which builds train simulators for both games and training.

    He's done over a hundred original station jingles.[2] Many of the Yamanote Line jingles are classics, though.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Mukaiya

    [2] https://www.ongakukan.co.jp/en/business/music/#melody

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    4. unleaded ◴[27 Aug 25 23:17 UTC] No.45046477[source]▶
    You Wouldn't Download a Train Station
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    5. layer8 ◴[28 Aug 25 00:04 UTC] No.45046785[source]▶
    There is some joke involving audio tracks in here.
    6. ekianjo ◴[28 Aug 25 00:17 UTC] No.45046882[source]▶
    Seems like he has nothing to do with the Yamanote line melodies though.
    7. gruez ◴[28 Aug 25 02:36 UTC] No.45047712[source]▶
    I know "fair use" gets bandied about quite frequently on youtube uploads, but offering full verbatim downloads of any work is highly unlikely to be considered fair use if a court were to rule on it. The only reason such sites are still up is that the rights holders don't care enough to sue.
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    8. kmeisthax ◴[28 Aug 25 05:18 UTC] No.45048651{3}[source]▶
    Yes, and this is also the real tragedy of automated copyright enforcement. All the funny grey area uses get marginalized.
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    9. hnthroay22312 ◴[28 Aug 25 06:43 UTC] No.45049164[source]▶
    not the same under Japanese's copyright law.
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    10. fair_enough ◴[28 Aug 25 21:26 UTC] No.45057224{3}[source]▶
    You should figure out who owns the copyright and report this infringement.

    Someone in Japan will surely be indignant about the all the lost revenue from people who are not buying a CD full of train station jingles.

    11. fair_enough ◴[28 Aug 25 21:38 UTC] No.45057332{4}[source]▶
    We need adverse possession ("squatter's rights") for intellectual property.

    I'm surprised copyright trolls are not buying IP from defunct game/film/music companies and suing youtubers left and right for uploading video game music and anime OSTs.

    If I were a sociopath and didn't care how I make my money, I draft some legit-looking legal threat letter template demanding $10,000 to avoid a civil lawsuit worth millions, fill in the blanks with a name, IP address, and title of pirated content, then mail out the letters by the tens of thousands using USPS-subsidized cheap mail.

    If you mail out about 20k of these threats, you only need 3 of them to pay up to come out on top.

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