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PadManiaX

Pocket Pixel Art StepMania clone · By Retora

Song licensing

A topic by hai!touch Studios created Jan 15, 2026 Views: 225 Replies: 3
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Are you on board to use these built-in songs? Have you licensed them with Piapro or whoever the rights-holders are?

If not, I can provide stepcharts for music released for free use.

Developer (1 edit)

Nope, the songs are not licensed. The authors copyright policy and StepMania’s policy allows me to use that charts in a non commercial open source project unless copyright policies change

The short answer is: No

So yeah! Thank you for your help! I’m not good with charting

The chart writers are using the songs without permission so the chart authors and StepMania don’t have jurisdiction on that matter. And since Fair Use is stricter in Japan, you’ll probably have to remove all these songs and possibly pay for damages if Piapro or whoever the copyright holder is ever finds out about this game.

Developer

i know but isn’t dangerous right now. i’m not making money with this and is still small. i don’t think I’ll get that far before I can develop official songs