Can someone explain to me the difference between what the person on patreon is doing, compared to any dev that uses Honey Select for example as a base for their game. After all Honey Select is owned by Illusion Company and FAKKU paid for the license to release Unlimited. But devs will release Honey Select based games on patreon and take money for something that is not originally their work.
So you know that a lot of DJ/music producers sample other people's work to create a new song? A lot of music that's made it to the radio has been taking little sound bytes or instrumental sections to create an entirely new song. For example, listen to the intro of Charles Aznavours song
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. Sounds quite a lot like Dre's
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, right? This is what the devs using Honey Select models are doing. They are using a part of someone else's work to create something new. A lot of long hours and hard effort goes into this. Of course most musicians gain permission or pay some sort of licensing cost. Most devs are doing this as a hobby and would never be able to afford proper licensing.
What Miagamehouse patreon page is doing however, is the equivalent of buying an album and then ripping it onto a bunch of CDs and selling them
(Guess this example makes more sense 15 years ago). There is absolutely little to no effort required. They aren't changing the product or putting any sort of artistic spin on it. They are just trying to make money off of someone else's work. More importantly, the people they are stealing from are usually already making far less from this hobby than they would by just getting a minimum wage job somewhere.
