She's also a young adult, while all the other ghosts are elders, and is indeed very cute-looking. Unlike the other ghosts in the house, who are all parents and grandparents of Gunther and Cornelia, her exact connection to the family is unclear. Cute Ghost Girl: Lolita Goth, who's buried in the graveyard at the back of the house.Canonically, they get married in adulthood. Childhood Friend Romance: Mortimer and Bella Bachelor are best friends in-game.Averted, however when Frida reappears with her uncle Samuel in Moonlight Falls from The Sims 3: Supernatural.Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Gunther's sister Frida is nowhere to be found this time around.Here it's stated that they founded Sunset Valley, a pretty decently sized town, which, in order to line up with the previous games would mean they did that in only a few in-game days (Children age up way faster). Also, the previous games mentioned they came from the "Old Country", recently enough that Mortimer was born there.
For reference, in The Sims 1, twenty-five years later they only appeared somewhat elderly, and if memories in The Sims 2 are to be believed, they lived pretty much until right before the start of the game, a full fifty years later. Continuity Snarl: Gunther and Cornelia are way older here, than originally thought, barely a week away from becoming elders.Understandable, since before 3 they were either elderly, or dead and elderly. Adaptational Attractiveness: Gunther and Cornelia.You can do whatever you want for your own personal use.The Goth FamilyMortimer Goth appears here as a child, living with his middle-aged parents, Gunther and Cornelia, and a whole lot of ghosts. When you then go to publish your derivative products, you run into issues. Just use it for your own enjoyment, and leave it at that. Performing in public, a song written by someone else, whether you copy their arrangement (i.e. play it note-for-note as they played it) or use your own arrangement, involves a performance royalty to the songwriter. This is typically owed/paid by the proprietor of the venue or the promoter. You, as a performer, may also be wearing one of those hats too. Your obligation would be to the performance rights society that the original artist lists their music: ASCAP, SESAC, BMI, etc. If you sell recordings of your own version of someone else's song, you have wandered into something slightly different, a mechanical license. That is (in the USA) managed by the Harry Fox Agency, and there are statutory rates for what you need to pay, per copy manufactured. Put very simply, none of this matters until that moment when money start changing hands. If you learned songs for 50 years, copying them down to paper for your own edification and enjoyment, but not disseminating those charts or selling recordings of your performances, you have no obligations. Is it legal for me to transcribe a copyrighted song? or somebody makes money, you wade into the copyright/licensing world. Transcribing a musical work is still making a copy, even if it is for personal study and is never sold, or even shared. It is unlikely to attract a suit even if technically it could. But if someone transcribes and gives away many copies of music now in print, a suit would probably follow. However, copyright infringement is not (in most cases) a crime. Unless the copyright owner chooses to file suit, nothing will be done.ĭo I need permission to sell or give away my musical transcriptions for free, in both when case the transcription may imitate the original sounds or is a recomposition of the songs. Making copies, and making derivative works based on a protected works, are both rights of the copyright owner, and neither may be done without permission, unless an exception to copyright applies (such as fair use or fair dealing). In some countries there is a specific exception for personal use, but there is not under US law. And distributing copies widely is much less likely to be fair use, even if there is no charge made.Ĭan I perform the transcription in public, and the performance may involving profits for myself (i.e selling tickets, crowd donation, selling performance recordings.) Copies for personal use will often come under fair use, but far from always.