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Comment by teddyh | Hacker News Reader

Those background images could really use some artist attributions.

Can't have contributions when the images likely aren't even under a license that would allow use like this. I guess it's better not to say where they are from and hope people don't notice...

The image of the girl lying on the floor is a screencap from the "Whisper of the Heart" movie. I doubt it's licensed. Various "lo-fi" YouTube channels used to do that as well, but got copyright strikes and changed to original artwork.

https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/anime-790045/is-studio-ghib...

> a screencap from the "Whisper of the Heart" movie. I doubt it's licensed.

Studio Ghibli did release a lot of screenshots from many of their movies about 6 months ago¹, but this movie is not among those included.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24564775

Wikipedia has an article on lofi_girl/chilledcow channels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofi_Girl

> Dimitri chose the character of Shizuku Tsukishima from the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart as the face of the channel, with footage of her studying or writing used in the streams. When the popularity of the streams ultimately led to some getting taken down for copyright violations, Dimitri decided to maintain the Ghibli-esque aesthetic but with an original character and put out a call for artists.

Yes, although I’d note that among people who listen to lofi music, the “anime girl studying with rain outside the window” animation is an extremely well known meme.

The streams should also be linked to.

The streams are just the name as a youtube video. For example if you click the "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to" in the bottom left (r what ever you are on) you'll see all the streams. Copying that name and pasting it in Youtube will show you the stream.

Though I do agree a link to them (since there is no mention of Lofi Girl anywhere for example) would be nice.

I'll add a little link to open the related YouTube video, it's much needed.

You are aware that it's usually a ToS violation to play YouTube videos without showing the YouTube player? https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum...

We're on hacker news and it's a cool tech project, who cares about some corporation's ToS?

Just sayin'

Maybe they will care when they get their account and maybe even any related accounts suspended.

I love lofi hip hop, so I wish good luck. But especially because of the exposure this might end not nice for the operators.

We're on artist news and it's a cool music project, who cares about someone's software license.

The project has a better chance of survival if it follows the rules of the platform sourcing their content. I think that warning somebody that they're standing on a cliff edge is the polite thing to do, even if the cliff is man-made.

Yep, I thought I recognized at least one of them from 1041uuu: https://1041uuu.tumblr.com/post/104751238713

Just the images?

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