bnsffan757
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I was wondering if I could get copyrighted by taking a sound from YouTube of a train horn and using it as a hornsound for Trainz 22 and uploading it to the DLS.
Using Train Horn Sounds from YouTube
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bnsffan757
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Sorry for my poor grammar usage btw.
The train horn sounds are not music and have no lyrics, nobody is going to know if the sound came from you recording it from a real train or not.
I could not imagine it being a copyright claim, how to claim things like that is beyond my understanding. Music and television shows are another thing. But, if you really are going to be safe, I guess you should do what @Therock said. I just don't see the point for a sound like a train horn unless it is mixed with music or something like that. By the way, using Audacity to capture the audio of train horn while playing back a clip will do what you need.
I could not imagine it being a copyright claim, how to claim things like that is beyond my understanding. Music and television shows are another thing. But, if you really are going to be safe, I guess you should do what @Therock said. I just don't see the point for a sound like a train horn unless it is mixed with music or something like that. By the way, using Audacity to capture the audio of train horn while playing back a clip will do what you need.
Therock
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the effort comes in actually getting off the computer and recording the thing. not everyone can go outside and record X Y Z horns off of 1 2 3 locomotives. you are more than welcome to try to fake the sound via synthesizers on the computer but i've had more than my share of people complaining and moaning about JR horns sounding 'fake' despite coming directly from recordings of the real thing. anyone and their dog loves to complain about work put in to recording horns in the cleanest environment possible (no bells, no ambient noise, etc) then say they can do better while providing a worse recording (doppler shift, crossing bells, popping loop, etc...)
EverTrainz
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In the past I have offered to pay railway Youtubers maybe $10 on paypal and asked for distribution rights to the 3 second sound of a horn clip from their video. In my case I was gearing it up for a payware release so it wouldn't have been ethical for me to just vaguely ask "can I use your horn for train simulator" and leave it at that.
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bnsffan757
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Thank you for all the responses and information. I very much agree with @Therock about recording your own horns. Like I know that he has recorded his own horns from his videos for JR. I know that WIT Simulations has used horn audios from YouTuber Central Penn Rail Productions and he never got copyrighted for it.
bnsffan757
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Hope this form other people will use if they have the same question.