Question of ethics?
June 11, 2009This really comes down to a question, possibly of personal ethics… but I would like to get some thoughts on the subject.
A few months back, my friend passed away due to complications caused by diabetes. I had been in contact with him via the internet since I started on the net, back in 1997. He was like a brother to me. Our contact dwindled towards the end, mainly due to his eyesight failing and with that, everything we had done together (playing FPS, Turn based games, etc).
During his life, he was quite prolific in creation of new worlds/ideas for a RPG game he wanted to create. He was also an accomplished musical creator.
The question comes as this though: I still have copies of some of his music, and have a piece of graphical art that I had created for him to use as the symbol for his RPG universe.
Would it be unethical of me to use some of his music as title tracks, should I choose to start up another podcast? Am I now open to using the graphic I created if I so wish? This graphic was not made public due to his fear that some company would snatch it’s design up.