Band Permission - What Proof Is Needed?

[ethicalpaul]

I'm pretty sure that's not what he meant. The proof doesn't need to be presented to the reviewer, it needs to be presented to Harmonix.

What he meant was that during the peer review process is probably when somebody might go, "Oh hey, I think this song belongs to X artist..."

Where X equals the artist that the author listed on the song?? I'm not sure how that is valuable. Every song belongs to an artist. The problem is that no reviewer has any information to determine if the artist gave permission to the author to post it.

Or I'm really not following your point.

I agree completely that the proof needs to be presented to hmx, and that's the point of this thread I think: what constitutes proof? It's the idea that peer reviewers have any useful role in the process that I disagree with.

[ethicalpaul]

Hopefully Harmonix will be keeping track of which RBN Authors have rights to what bands, so that we don't have to do they "I've got permission dance" all over again.

I don't see how they can keep track of that, but maybe they'll surprise me. Already there has been an artist who has used 2 or 3 different authors. I feel the number of combinations of artists and authors is going to explode, so I hope they get in front of it--seems like a difficult problem to me.