Due to the legal implications of submitting music on behalf of another person, yes that is correct.

I don't have anything against signing a simple licensing agreement, but Capcom's TOS is absolutely ridiculous. They can sub-license your music (basically sell YOUR music to any of their affiliates, without crediting you whatsoever). You have no right to sue them because they make you sign an idemnification/hold harmless agreement.

Their ToS also specifically states that they can use your track for commercial purposes, and have no legal obligation to pay you a penny off what they make. Sorry, but I just have a HUGE problem with other people profiting off my own hard work.

In the end, I kind of feel like this compo was a bit of a sham. I was under the impression that execs from Capcom were seriously looking at the music we were making here, and all-in-all, we're nothing more than tools.

Ugh. That is pretty rough.

Meh, I for one don't really care at this point. The music is already made, I wasn't going to profit from it anyways, and when entering this compo I was expecting capcom to retain the rights to the music made.

I will be submitting my tracks later. One thing tho, they were asking for Wavs, but they seem ok with good ole youtube submissions? o_0 what gives?

EDIT: the part about uploading the tracks to ocremix was hilarious tho. That and keeping the direct wav submissions under 5 mbs.

I'm pretty sure it's essentially the same agreement from back when I did their Dark Void remix contest. They mentioned all these possibilities like potentially using the song in trailers and albums to cover their asses just in case, but in reality (despite being the winner) they only used the song for slapping a download link on the official game site, capcom unity, the site of the company that was sponsoring the contest, and Bear McCreary's blog (Dark Void composer).

That is not a complaint, BTW. I was honored to be acknowledged at all. I'm just saying they are probably saying things to cover their asses and probably won't actually sell the music, just use it in stuff.

I honestly couldn't care less that they could sell it; it's the fact that they don't have to credit me for making the remix at all that really gets me.

That is a very reasonable concern. It's a shame that it's a worded in a way that would give them that kind of power. Fortunately, the guys over at Unity (specifically Brett and Greg in my dealings) are actually pretty cool dudes and it likely won't come to that.

I totally get the hesitation though, and I wouldn't want to force my thoughts on the matter on anyone. Having us each make our own decision to submit was a good move.

Yeah and just to clarify, when we were speaking with our Capcom contact, they didn't realize the OC ReMixers-only restriction would be frowned on by the legal department later on either, otherwise we wouldn't have put that in place.

Thomas is from the ghetto, and thus suspicious of "The Man." I don't think any conspiracy level stuff is behind the wording, so I doubt Capcom's gonna sell/profit off of the arrangements if you submit they. BUT they could based on that agreement, so if you're afraid they would and you don't want to open yourself up to the possibility of them doing that, then don't submit, that's understandable.

Honestly all that legalese looks like, as Main Finger pointed out, just the legal department covering their asses on this. From the wording on the website it looks like they will be showcasing the fan music, they are even asking for information for promotional purposes so i don't think we will go uncredited for it.

EDIT: Also, what Larry said.

How does limiting it to OC Remixers make it such a big, different deal? Seriously?

Maybe they think of OCRemixers as members of some artists guild? lol who knows. These big company legal dudes are always paranoid, it's their job.