Marty O’Donnell, the former audio director at Bungie, who attended. has worked gloriole and determination Forced by a court for years to upload a video asking people not to share and publish video game music he uploaded online without legal permission and against court orders. In the short video, the composer even urges fans to “destroy” any copies of the music that they might still have.
On O’Donnell’s YouTube channel, the composer has uploaded a 45 second video yesterday, which contains a prepackaged and court-approved message urging people to stop sharing or posting “non-commercially available material relating to” determination or Music of the Spheres.”
His full statement can be read below.
“To whom it May concern,
I do not have, and have not had, legal authority to own or distribute non-commercially available material relating to Destiny or Music of the Spheres (including material I composed or created while working for Bungie) since April 2014 or later.
This material is owned by Bungie. If you have posted any of these assets on a website or other publicly available platform, you should immediately remove the content. If you have copies of these assets, you should refrain from disclosing them and destroy copies of them.
This request does not apply to Destiny or Music of the Spheres material that you legitimately obtained from commercially available sources. “
Back in 2010, three years after Bungie and Microsoft split, the studio began working with Activision on a 10-year development plan to support the determination Franchise. And it was decided by Bungie and O’Donnell that, instead of making music for every scheduled part of the game, O’Donnell would compose a large score for the entire franchise and all future games. After composing for two years with Michael Salvatori and former Beatle Paul McCartney, they had created a large eight-part score called “The Music of Spheres”.
But before E3 2013, Activision decided not to use its music for Fate 1 ‘s E3 2013 trailer. According to court documents from 2015, O’Donnell was angry about the change and complained directly to Bungie CEO Harold Ryan. The rest of Bungie’s management agreed that Activision had gone too far and filed a formal complaint, but the publisher declined. O’Donnell’s plans to release the project as a separate publication have been rejected by both Bungie and Activision. This ultimately led to O’Donnell going online when the Activision-rated E3 trailer premiered and tweeted that the music was not from Bungie, causing a conflict with the developer and eventually further problems between the studio and the Composer led. he was released on April 11, 2014 for no reason.
Lawsuits followed. In one lawsuit – which O’Donnell won – he was still ordered to “remove all material” from. return determination and “Music of the Spheres” – not just the final scores, but all versions, components and variations.
In 2019 (after the 2018 leaks from “Music of the spheres ”score online) O’Donnell began uploading music from the project. Bungie’s attorneys argued that the order violated the previous injunction, and in May 2021, a judge ruled in Bungie’s favor.
In September of that year, O’Donnell was on trial for his sustained use of determination financial assets, including uploading song clips online long after he was fired and left Bungie in 2014. Corresponding Eurogamer, such use violated the terms of a previous litigation. He was almost forced to pay Bungie $ 100,000 and hired to create a video declares that he was not authorized to provide this music or material. Additionally, O’Donnell should tell anyone who downloaded the assets not to give them away and to destroy all copies of them.
Now, almost two months later, and after both sides of the litigation approved the text, this video has been uploaded to his two YouTube and Twitter accounts.
It seems like the end of this long litigation, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a new fold or chapter emerges in this saga in the not-too-distant future.
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