Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-85.246.222.91-20131012020730/@comment-4565782-20131012184937

Okay before I start discussing this I'd like to say that I'm not expert in this field.

I don't think utaite have to pay for any rights or anything especially since the whole VOCALOID franchise has done a lot of things to allow for producers and such to do what they do without getting sued for it as VOCALOID is entirely dependent on its fanbase (though I suppose this is true for the doujin community was well). I do know that if a utaite does want to produce a CD with covers from specific producers, they must ask for the permission of the producer before being allowed to.

Okay to cut the answer short, yeah, I guess it is considered like promotion since most utaite do sell their CDs at conventions like doujin are.