This originally looked like a cool idea to me, until au read the terms of the contest and realized that @CDPROJEKTRED is still acting like a corporate villain in #CyberpunkEdgerunners or #cyberpunk2077 🧵1
Rather than pay artists what they are worth for using their work in mega selling AAA videogame, ie a reasonable royalty per unit or a flay cash payment for a limited license, @CDPROJEKTRED is instead running a contest in which the winners will each get 3k in cash & a gift bag /2
in exchange, the "winners" will be requires to sell not just an exclusive license, but actual ownership of the copyright to @CDPROJEKTRED. Not just for #cyberpunk2077 #PhantomLiberty but forever and always for any purpose they see fit including advertising, other games, OST /3
sales, future tv & movies like the recent big hit #CyberpunkEdgerunners, promoting political campaigns for nazis, or anything se they can think of. Also, the artists will no longer have the right to perform or sell the work, make new recordings of it and sell those, write new /4
versions of the song and perform and sell those, or anything else that artists have to do to monetize the music they create. I have written and recorded a few songs in my time, and I can also say tbat 3k could easily be subminimum wage for what @CDPROJEKTRED is getting from /5
#cyberpunk2077 #PhantomLiberty DLC contest "winners:" an LP worth of music specifically composed for their in game radio station for less than 50k. I guarantee you @Grimezsz & @Refused would never take a deal like that for the tracks they licensed for this game. /6
Curious to see if the game journalists who took @CDPROJEKTRED to task over the labor exploitation "crunch" time expected of developers during & after the launch of #cyberpunk2077 will cotton to this latest attempt to crowdsource labor rather than conpensate artists. shameful.
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