At 6/30/17 08:14 PM, Troisnyx wrote:
Question. I know this is old and I realise it's in my favourites but...
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/140474
I don't think that sample is from an anime. I think it might be from the original Nyan Cat video, run through vocal isolation and EQ'ed, from the sound of it.
Nyan Cat has reached memetic status and is so pervasively sampled, it's hard to know what came from where if you've never seen anything but the Nyan Cat video that surfaced in 2011 and the endless remixes and covers. You can read about its history here; it does mention a legal battle, buuuut that lawsuit concerns the creators of the Nyan Cat character suing Warner Bros for using the character without compensating them, and the creators winning. I don't think anyone is suing over the song associated at present.
@TomFulp, @Exedor, @NekoMika, what do you think? The sample is just the Nyan vocal, which I think is Chinese. What I'm reading across the net seems to be that the artists aren't exercising their copyrights on the works. "Nyan Cat is probably a copyright violation but since the original video author and music author support its continued exhibition it persists." - according to replies on Quora. It's a work that sees a lot of reproduction, as memes often do. I'm on the fence.