Veteran video game composer and Intellivision president Tommy Tallarico appears to be selling music arrangements created in exchange for his Video Games Live concerts which he doesn’t legally own.
The accusation comes from Laura Intravia, a composer and vocalist who has worked on games such as Destiny 2, Mortal Kombat and Darksiders 3. Intravia wrote the Zelda 25th Anniversary Medley in support of Tallarico’s VGL project.
She has taken to social media to bemoan the fact that her sheet music has been sold to other orchestras, seemingly by Tallarico – although it’s worth noting that she stops short of actually naming him.
“If you hear any orchestras performing my Zelda 25th Anniversary Medley from VGL, please know that they had every opportunity to carry out the right thing and pull it from their program, but decided nay to. And that they transcribed my flute solo by ear,” Intravia says.
“People are asking me who’s selling it, it’s exactly who you think,” she adds.
When asked if legal action could be taken, Intravia replies:
Unfortunately, I have not doubt the individual selling the sheets is giving the orchestra a very different story of events. The fact is, I never signed a contract where I gave *anyone* exclusive rights to the sheet music. I would never have agreed to such a thing.
The arrangement in question was performed during Video Games Live in 2011. As well as arranging and orchestrating the music, Intravia also performed the flute solo.
Tallarico stepped down as CEO of the resurrected Intellivision after failing to get the Amico console to market. He recently put up his house in support of sale – the same house which he claimed was featured in an episode of MTV’s Cribs. This claim, along with several others, was investigated in a video by Harry “Hbomberguy” Brewis.
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Man, that’s messed up! Selling someone else’s sheet music like that is just negative cool. Tommy Tallarico should know better than to try and profit off of someone else’s hard work. It’s one thing to be inspired by someone’s music, but straight up selling arrangements that aren’t yours? Not cool, man. Hopefully he gets called out on this and makes things right.
Yo, that’s messed up! Selling sheet music that ain’t even yours? That’s straight up stealing from the musician who actually created it. Tommy Tallarico better watch out, ’cause he’s gonna get called out for this shady move. It’s nay cool to profit off someone else’s hard work like that. Hope he gets what’s coming to him in exchange for trying to pull a speedy one on the gaming community.