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Alex Mauer was the musician and sound designer of Starr Mazer DSP, a generic bullet hell game made by Imagos Software, now available on Steam.
Props to @Ride for the photo.
After the launch of the game, Alex Mauer decidedshe wasn't being properly compensated for her work, so instead of hiring a lawyer, he has decided to rally people to his side by spamming DMCA notices at rando Youtubers who were streaming the game. Surprisingly, Pearl Harboring the Youtube channels of innocent nobodies didn't win him any allegiances, rather it had the effect of being perceived as an act of extortion. When confronted about the DMCA claims, he had this to say.
At first glance, one might be inclined to assume this dinky, nobody indie company have found themselves in a Ken Penders scenario, one which entails the non-existence of a work for hire contract, preventing the company from proving they have sole proprietary rights of the work created for Starr Mazer by the contractor. Evidently not.
Rather than taking Alex to court for falsely representing them, the indie developer bends knee to Alex and removes the game from Steam only to put it back up with the soundtrack completely removed.
Alex then claimed he also created the sound effects for the game, and once again, the indie company that owns sole custody of the intellectual property rights to this music as forsworn to them by her in a work for hire contract, folds. They removed the game from Steam yet again, presumably only to put it back up without sound effects later.
To top off the shit sundae with a red, red cherry, he has decided that the going price for an album of 23 tracks of 8-bit Mario Maker music is $1000.00 USD.
Not even the best of mainstream bands that sell out every venue they appear in before the internet piracy era could ever get away with selling each copy of their album for a $1000, not even if it were plated with gold and diamonds. Best yet is since this is Bandcamp of all places to upload your music, everyone can just listen to these songs for fucking free all day erry day.
The most insulting part is he couldn't even be arsed to give each song their own name, they're labeled by the level numbers and phases they were arranged in during game development.
If this weren't the modern internet age, I would have to leap to the conclusion that this over the top scandal was a hoax, a ridiculous viral marketing strategy to put the independent game developer company into the spotlight. But alas, the autism is too real to not be true.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/462100/discussions/0/133258092245215209/
https://alexmauermusic.bandcamp.com/releases
Props for Leonard Finch video by @bird
UPDATE: The Jimquisition video I posted when creating this thread was removed as I was posting it. It's ironic since Jim actually dared Alex openly to try taking his video down. Mission successful, Jim.
Props to @Ride for the photo.
After the launch of the game, Alex Mauer decided
At first glance, one might be inclined to assume this dinky, nobody indie company have found themselves in a Ken Penders scenario, one which entails the non-existence of a work for hire contract, preventing the company from proving they have sole proprietary rights of the work created for Starr Mazer by the contractor. Evidently not.
Rather than taking Alex to court for falsely representing them, the indie developer bends knee to Alex and removes the game from Steam only to put it back up with the soundtrack completely removed.
Alex then claimed he also created the sound effects for the game, and once again, the indie company that owns sole custody of the intellectual property rights to this music as forsworn to them by her in a work for hire contract, folds. They removed the game from Steam yet again, presumably only to put it back up without sound effects later.
To top off the shit sundae with a red, red cherry, he has decided that the going price for an album of 23 tracks of 8-bit Mario Maker music is $1000.00 USD.
Not even the best of mainstream bands that sell out every venue they appear in before the internet piracy era could ever get away with selling each copy of their album for a $1000, not even if it were plated with gold and diamonds. Best yet is since this is Bandcamp of all places to upload your music, everyone can just listen to these songs for fucking free all day erry day.
The most insulting part is he couldn't even be arsed to give each song their own name, they're labeled by the level numbers and phases they were arranged in during game development.
If this weren't the modern internet age, I would have to leap to the conclusion that this over the top scandal was a hoax, a ridiculous viral marketing strategy to put the independent game developer company into the spotlight. But alas, the autism is too real to not be true.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/462100/discussions/0/133258092245215209/
https://alexmauermusic.bandcamp.com/releases
UPDATE: The Jimquisition video I posted when creating this thread was removed as I was posting it. It's ironic since Jim actually dared Alex openly to try taking his video down. Mission successful, Jim.
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