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Quick question...

 

Is TDM going to be using the sound effects from the previous Thief games or do you guys plan to record your own sound effects?

 

I'd love to have the original sound effects for the sake of authenticity, but I imagine there are probably legal barriers to using them. So, assuming you have to record your own sound effects, do you forsee them being equivalent in quality and/or quantity to the originals?

 

Personally, I think the sound effects and the ambient sound are some of the most important aspects of the 'thief experience,' so to speak. I hope that they are not neglected in pursuit of some of the niftier features that are being discussed.

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Well, hopefully as good as.

 

But since we can't use TDS sounds anyway (LEGAL REASONS), what's the point in even talking about it?

What legal reasons? Can they actually copyright or trademark a sound??

 

Just rerecord it and very slightly change it somehow.

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IMO a soundeffect can not really be copyrighted, because it doesn't hold enough "artistic creation" (Schoepfungshoehe). For entire tracks this c ertainly is true though. Even so, you shouldn't confuse copyright with inteleectual property. They have the copyright for their recorded sound effects, but they have no intellectual propery rights on them. Otherwise we would never see any heartbeat sound in any game anymore. :)

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