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2018/03/28 23:51:40 (permalink)

Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software?

So I asked a Bandlab rep, which it was a real pain honestly to do so, to remove my Bandlab account because I don't want to use that site at all. 
 
First thing Bandlab said in their post was you'd be able to activate your software and don't worry the forums would remain in tact. 
 
Then I get a message saying that in order to secure a smooth transition and such that I needed to created a Bandlab account. 
 
Yes, I do have concerns, and I've been flamed for having those concerns on these forums which apparently have no relevance where moderation goes except the special interest of the new owners. And I suspect this post will be deleted also, along with many as others have complained. 
 
I have no problem creating a new account on another site to be able to activate my previous software, and I don't mind the ad's that might come to my email.  Honestly, from what LITTLE I seen of Bandlab I like what I saw but some of the question I have asked on here keep getting deleted like : 
 
1 :  Can I post my songs and have it set to listen only where someone can't download it, because it is a BAND LAB Site meaning you give up your rights the second you post something on there for fair use?????? 
 
2 : Cakewalk is NO MORE, DUH, I get that, but Band lab has access to personal information and post and such things on this site because less face it there are emails and such things, much like Facebook. How do I know that information wont be sold? And I asked that question earlier and had someone try and chastise me for asking that question.
 
3 : I have no problem with Band Lab, except the fact that they don't want to answer questions or reply to anyone and that people like me who ask them get their questions DELETED. That I do have a problem with. IT SAYS A LOT WHERE TECHNICAL SUPPORT GOES IN THE FUTURE IF I DECIDE TO CONTINUE BAND LAB. 
 
Whoever the owner is of Band Lab needs to consider more than just monetary issues, because you don't just buy a statue and place it where you want to thinking it will be alright with everyone else, that statue has a history to go along with it. 
 
Either way, I guess this thread will get zapped. I will continue to use my Sonar Platinum because it's simply better than anything there is out there. As for Band Lab, until something changes I wont be using there services, and I hope they delete my account AS WAS STATED TO ME IN AN EMAIL. We shall see. 
 
This is probably my last post EVER on these forums, and it will probably be deleted. 
 
So Fair THEE WELL Everyone! Best wishes Cakewalk FRIENDS! As for the rest......... I dunno you and thank GOD FOR THAT!
 
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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 00:02:11 (permalink)
You're not giving up the rights to your music. No one can do anything to your music unless you allow it to be "forked." You can opt in or out of that when you upload a song. Bandlab, Soundcloud, Soundclick, etc., all need permission to use your music so people can play it on their site. They're not trying to steal your stuff.
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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 00:03:35 (permalink)
BandLab accounts are replacing Cakewalk accounts in the activation process. Without a BandLab account activation will not be possible.
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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 00:09:49 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby abacab 2018/03/29 00:34:17
All the software, authorisation systems, etc., that used to be owned by Cakewalk/Gibson is now owned by BandLab.  It is gradually being migrated over to BandLab IT infrastructure.  All Cakewalk customers accounts are being migrated to BandLab infrastructure so that customers can still access everything they've bought and authorise it (if required).
 
If you delete your BandLab account then....   is it really not obvious?
 

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 01:57:00 (permalink)
You don't have to like their site, nor any obligation to participate in any social service of that site. Just signup for the sake of your Cakewalk products activation, and that's all.

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 02:06:05 (permalink)
I've barely looked at the site, but I did activate my account.  I don't anticipate doing anything other than following up on my Cakewalk stuff.

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 02:06:07 (permalink)
Yes, that's all I plan to do. As well as the Cakewalk forum, of course. At least at first. There is no reason for paranoia. If they give us reason down the road, then I'll feel differently. But nothing they have said gives me any cause for concern.

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 04:22:02 (permalink)
I've been too busy to explore the Bandlab website, but I opened an account there with my Cakewalk user name and email, so I don't have a problem with authorization down the road. I have no problem with a web-based music collaboration idea, and when I get around to it I'll probably try to hook up with some people to work on music.
 
I don't know where the OP lives, but in the United States we have at least three giant companies whose entire business model is to gather extremely sensitive financial information on everybody without government regulation or "victim" permission, and then sell that to other giant corporations who want to know -- for reasons of their own -- about your "credit standing." Last year one of these credit bureaus got hacked and spilled the private data of millions of people. I am not talking about a credit card number. I'm talking about Social Security numbers (sort of a national ID), birthdates, addresses, mothers maiden names  -- everything a criminal would need to embark on massive identity theft.
 
So far our government has not done anything substantive to punish the nitwits who allowed this breach or to prevent further losses going forward. So I am not going to worry about my account at Bandlab. In fact, my guess is that they have better security than the US company who lost all that data (Hint: rhymes with "Equifax").
 

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 06:13:11 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby tlw 2018/03/29 11:01:29
Serious_Noize!
 
I have no problem creating a new account on another site to be able to activate my previous software, and I don't mind the ad's that might come to my email. 




I am confused by why it couldn't just be left at this and done with. There is no obligation to use BandLab, and the account setup seems to be a method to identify active users (via email account verification) so that their Cakewalk accounts can get ported over.
 
I set up an account with same name, same email, then verified it, and let it sit. Taking it beyond that is moot unless you intend to use the BandLab services.

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 06:16:51 (permalink)
Your questions (and you asked them before) have been answered several times. You are stating repeatedly, your posts and questions are deleted by Bandlab (?). I doubt that. I think they simply have no time left for playschool.
 
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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 09:17:39 (permalink)
Perhaps they spoke to Bobby ?
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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 09:37:37 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Moxica 2018/04/09 12:42:22
The OP doesn't seem to be asking a question. Certainly not one that hasn't already been answered. They seem to just be ranting paranoid opinions, but to answer the question; if you want the software formally known as Sonar, you need to have a bandlab account just as you had to have a cakewalk account previously. Simple! Regarding your music rights and the terms & conditions; these are standard conditions throughout the industry - they need your permission to host your music and stream it.

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 09:50:48 (permalink)
Hmmm...I used a new user name signing to BandLab site. But the e-mail adress is the important one, I guess (?).
That remains the same.

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 13:36:32 (permalink)
1. I had no spam from BandLab so far.
 
2. All questions about rights on uploaded content are clarified even before you sign up: 
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By signing up, you agree to our Terms & Privacy Policy.

Both links are informative and "must read" in case someone want to know the details (as OP).
 
3. Op has a license for Platinum. That means he has long time agreed with corresponding privacy closures of Cakewalk (storing e-mail, name, purchase history, etc. also with cases how that information is used and when it is transfered). Till someone is going to use exclusively 10 years (or more) old or open source/free software, such policy is impossible to avoid.
 
4. Moderators/support delete/ignore posts/questions which make no sense. And based on (1,2,3) I think that was the case.

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 13:39:10 (permalink)
He'll return in a bit to chastise anyone who isn't Bandlab for answering his questions and not minding their own business. Then if Bandlab answers he'll be upset that he didn't get the answer he wanted. These preliminaries out of the way, he'll then go on to tell us how injust it all is and how he wishes to sever all relations with Bandlab in a caps-ridden post which soars to new heights of drama. 

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 14:23:30 (permalink)
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I have no problem creating a new account on another site to be able to activate my previous software, and I don't mind the ad's that might come to my email. 




I am confused by why it couldn't just be left at this and done with. There is no obligation to use BandLab, and the account setup seems to be a method to identify active users (via email account verification) so that their Cakewalk accounts can get ported over.
 
I set up an account with same name, same email, then verified it, and let it sit. Taking it beyond that is moot unless you intend to use the BandLab services.

Yes. Same here. To the OP please note there is no requirement to use the site features at bandcamp. Just leave your account intact/reset it and decide for yourself when you see/hear more about it if you want to use the new DAW. As a minimum don't burn the bridge preventing you from accessing/activating your current (Cakewalk) software.

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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 14:54:40 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby pwalpwal 2018/03/29 15:01:42
Can't you people see what's going on here? I mean, re-arrange the letters BANDLAB (and take some away, and add some new ones) and you get MINDCONTROL. Coincidence??? I don't think so.



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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 15:10:46 (permalink)
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He'll return in a bit to chastise anyone who isn't Bandlab for answering his questions and not minding their own business. Then if Bandlab answers he'll be upset that he didn't get the answer he wanted. These preliminaries out of the way, he'll then go on to tell us how unjust it all is and how he wishes to sever all relations with Bandlab in a caps-ridden post which soars to new heights of drama. 



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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 15:13:15 (permalink)
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Can't you people see what's going on here? I mean, re-arrange the letters BANDLAB (and take some away, and add some new ones) and you get MINDCONTROL. Coincidence??? I don't think so.






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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 18:07:23 (permalink)
I do not really have much to say about the BandLab account as such. If it will allow me to continue to re-install my Cakewalk software, that is a service worth the trivial cost of having my email address etc. housed at another site which will probably be hacked at some time in the future and scattered about the dark web. Thank you, Equifax et. al.
 
The copyright issues with uploading content to the accounts is explained in particularly clear language for such documents. It is worth noting, for anyone who has anything of any value to post, that you are granting BandLab an enormously exploitable license, that may make your own use of the material difficult, at least temporarily. While you grant to other users licenses with various limits, which may effectively prevent them from using your work in ways you do not intend, you grant to BandLab  itself pretty much every right in the music except ownership:
 
"Licence granted to us: By Submitting Your Content through the Services, you hereby grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable licence to access, use, reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, adapt, synchronise, prepare derivative works of, compile, make available and otherwise communicate Your Content to the public, in connection with the Service and our (and our successors’ and Related Entities’) business, including the distribution of advertising or other promotional material through the Services."
 
Just to be clear there is nothing unique about this extensive rights grab. You will find similar language on many of the music upload sites. But there is no need for all these rights just to host or rebroadcast your material back to yourself, as they imply. Further, the distinction between ownership of your rights, and a license in practice depends on how broad the license is, and what use can be made of it. As creator/owner you initially have the exclusive right to grant licenses, and BandLab does not have to have, and does not acquire, "ownership" of your work to use it.  But the non-exclusive license you are granting them allows them to in turn grant that license to anyone else without your permission, and may very well allow them to publish or otherwise make money from your work without paying you anything. Furthermore, if you are planning to publish your material as a recording for example, you may find it difficult to find a publisher/record company that will not require you to grant to them an "exclusive" license, so that they will not find themselves competing with another publisher licensed by you. The license quoted above is a "non-exclusive" license, you (and BandLab, and any company that acquires BandLab and anyone or any company BandLab chooses), can continue to grant similar licenses to anyone, but once you have granted it, it is impossible for you to grant a publisher the "exclusive" license he will almost certainly want to acquire. 
 
In fairness, this massive acquisition of rights, is moderated by a termination clause, which is often not found on similar upload site license agreements:
"Termination of Licences: The above licences which you grant to us and to other Users, will terminate within a commercially reasonable and practicable time after you remove or delete Your Content from the Services or within a commercially reasonable and practicable time after you terminate your Account, except (a) the above licences will not terminate in respect of Content which you Share with others (including in a Band) and which they have not removed from the Services; and (b) the above licences granted by you in User comments you Submit are perpetual and irrevocable."
 
On the face of it this would appear to give you the option of removing your content and terminating the licenses to BandLab itself, after which you could presumably grant an exclusive license to someone else if those were the only other non-exclusive licenses you had granted. The "commercially reasonable and practicable" phrase is open to interpretation, but presumably any use of your rights which BandLab was making money from, or which it would cost them money to discontinue would not immediately be terminated. Else why the odd modifier "commercially?" The exception (a) would seem to be in line with their assumption that collaborators are co-owners of material on the site. But consider that this creates a tar-baby by which someone with whom you have shared can effectively continue to use whatever rights you have licensed so long as he simply keeps the material on the site.
 
And there is an additional consideration in this context in that copyright law (as opposed to BandLab's license contract) typically makes a license to create a derivative work irrevocable if the derivative is created during the license term. That interpretation derives from the concept that the author of the derivative work has his own right in that portion which he produced independently, and the copyright owner of the original work would be able to vitiate that right by withdrawing the license unless the courts recognized a permanent license. So if someone sets his lyric to your music with your permission, or creates an arrangement of your music while it is posted to BandLab, you may not be able to do much if he uses it to make a hit record for himself, even if neither version is still hosted on BandLab. 
 
So long as you understand, not just what you are granting and to whom, but how these licenses may be exploited outside of the immediate use of having fun sharing music, there should be no unpleasant surprises. But the courts can always count on business from former friends/band members who have fallen out over who controls exploitable copyrights. Consider the implications of band members/collaborators who are strangers scattered across the a global network of various laws and jurisdictions. Heed BandLab's advice to have a written contract, not just the BandLab terms of service, that clearly explains how those rights will be allocated and controlled, if you think anything worth fighting over will come of your collaboration.
 
post edited by slartabartfast - 2018/03/29 21:22:24
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Re: Deleted Bandlab Account, does this mean I lose activation for my Cake Software? 2018/03/29 18:20:59 (permalink)
I am an avid staunch lover of all things cake (I mean bandlad) Or whatever it will be called. I intend to stay here and never move to another DAW why? I know that the best DAW is here in my hands so I will give over all my info to bandlad who I dont know so they can have all my details over the last ten years its a win-win for them (I mean for me) Even though I blindly put my trust in a company who haven't yet told me the details of what this new flagship will look like dayum they haven't even given it a name lol.
 
I will continue to make up names expecting something equally as good (with audio dropout) as the DAW I had previously. I am over the moon about this and also I am thinking that my Lifetime updates will continue. I know some may call me deluded but even though I haven't been promised anything I'm still very happy that the first thing bandlag did was ensure that they have my bank details. I mean my account details sorry Freudian slip. Let me go and make some music in "£$%%£^3 

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