With a growing UTAU community there is also a growing risk of UTAU theft. Wether it is Artwork,Voice Banks or anything else, it can get stolen. I know that sometimes these sort of things cannot be prevented because some people are determined to steal UTAU but some things will prevent most people from stealing an UTAU. One of these things is called a Terms Of Use Agreement. While the Terms Of Use Agreement can go by several names, it is basically an agreement that is made upon download or purchase of pretty much anything that is used on a computer.
A lot of the UTAU that are created have no Terms Of Use Agreements. This can leave the creater with nothing legal to back them up if their UTAU is stolen.
Even if an UTAU has a Terms Of Use Agreement, it is usually in either Japanese or English. What about if someone doesn't speak that language? Either they might steal it because they do not know that it is stealing or they do and they use language barriers as an excuse.
This is why I want to call all of the UTAU community here together, To create some Terms Of Use Agreements with varying degrees of freedom. Such as it is with the Vocaloids. Fukase,Hatsune Miku and IA all have Usage Agreements that differ in the amount of freedom they have when using the voice and character.
In order to stop a lot of thieves it is best if many people join in with this just so we can make the agreements be the best that they can be. The more people that can join in also means that there will most likely be more translaters. Anyone who can(or knows someone who can) translate the finished agreements into other languages would be of great use. The more languages that we can translate these documents for means that hopefully more thieves can be stopped before they try to steal an UTAU from the people who have put so much time and effort into making them.
How would you feel if your UTAU was stolen?
(Sorry for my terrible writing skills and also sorry if this is not meant to be in UTAU Diescussion)
A lot of the UTAU that are created have no Terms Of Use Agreements. This can leave the creater with nothing legal to back them up if their UTAU is stolen.
Even if an UTAU has a Terms Of Use Agreement, it is usually in either Japanese or English. What about if someone doesn't speak that language? Either they might steal it because they do not know that it is stealing or they do and they use language barriers as an excuse.
This is why I want to call all of the UTAU community here together, To create some Terms Of Use Agreements with varying degrees of freedom. Such as it is with the Vocaloids. Fukase,Hatsune Miku and IA all have Usage Agreements that differ in the amount of freedom they have when using the voice and character.
In order to stop a lot of thieves it is best if many people join in with this just so we can make the agreements be the best that they can be. The more people that can join in also means that there will most likely be more translaters. Anyone who can(or knows someone who can) translate the finished agreements into other languages would be of great use. The more languages that we can translate these documents for means that hopefully more thieves can be stopped before they try to steal an UTAU from the people who have put so much time and effort into making them.
How would you feel if your UTAU was stolen?
(Sorry for my terrible writing skills and also sorry if this is not meant to be in UTAU Diescussion)