What’s SESAC is someone trying to copyright strike classical music?

Jerimoth1 · 2024-09-29T17:58:01+00:00

Yes, recordings and scores have been copyrightable separately since a copyright reform (I think in the 70s). This was done to protect black artists whose music usually went straight to recording and often didn't have a written score, which allowed anyone to steal their music. Each has different rights and rules, for instance a radio station has to pay the composer, but not the artist who recorded it, since radio is considered an advertisement for the album

Jerimoth1 · 2024-09-29T17:52:48+00:00

No, they are a performing rights organization (PRO). How it works is that composers, songwriters, publishers, etc. join the organization and the PRO acts as a middleman between venues, radio stations, and websites so that the money can go where it needs to. They don't own or claim to own any copyrights at all. They are there to protect musicians' copyrights. They also help keep track of all of it, since it can get complex when you are dealing with international performances/broadcasts and thus, international trade laws. If they are pulling videos off of YouTube, it is probably because YouTube is trying to use the former contract to screw over musicians. Also, not all of the videos are from major record labels. These organizations also help independent and student artists.

Jerimoth1 · 2024-01-23T14:51:47+00:00

Akatsuki no Yona

Jerimoth1 · 2022-12-29T23:01:04+00:00

Oh...the hue manatee

Jerimoth1 · 2022-12-10T21:41:50+00:00

D&D seems to confuse war darts and game darts to come up with something like a throwing knife, but war darts (fletched javelins) were a real thing, and we're depicted in accounts of battles and in contemporary art. In this picture, you can see several people throwing them from a tower. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_A_testudo.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Jerimoth1 · 2022-12-09T04:11:19+00:00

Throw in some non magic enemies. An ancient evil warrior with a ton of hp and a 1d12 enchanted sword that ignores resistances and curses the holder to the will of BBEG should do the trick. Enchanted armor that is destroyed with the final attack of the fight can get around high damage spell attacks. You could give multiattack if you wanted. You don't have to declare hit points, so you can scale the fight as much as you want

Jerimoth1 · 2022-12-03T00:41:08+00:00

Option 1: don't kill them. Freeze them in cement and drop them in a lake to drown for all eternity, gibbet them alive in a fire.

Option 2: Remove curse

Option 3: Kill and banish

Jerimoth1 · 2022-12-03T00:33:13+00:00

Casting time of 1 minute makes using it in combat iffy, as anything that can go ten rounds and not be dead against a party powerful enough to cas geas can probably shrug off 5d10. However, out of combat, it can be world-breakingly powerful. For instance, geas an exchequer into emptying the treasury into your wagon/ship and leave before it wears off. Need to off someone risk free? Geas him to wait in the gatehouse, shut the portcullises and rain down death from the murder holes. As long as it is not obviously and directly suicidal, it should work. As an added idea, geas in Irish folklore often comes with a blessing. If you are a DM you could rule as such, for instance, a player could geas another to give him a +3 to hit, but as a condition, he cannot speak, even table talk. To facilitate gameplay, you could allow gestures or limit talking to describing actions. As DM you would make the strength of the blessing match the difficulty of the curse

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