On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 10:13 -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 07:37 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > >> >From what I saw by sneaking into a subset of these files, > >> - They lack any license or copyright information. > >> > >> - They are sound files (sound samples), being usable stand-alone with a > >> little processing (They are plain tar.gz's of *.wav's and *.flac's) > >> being obscured by using a nonstandard file suffix). > >> > >> - Question, I don't know the answer to: Do these sound samples qualify > >> as "artwork" (and therefore have to be considered to be covered by > >> "artistic" copyright laws)? > > > > I wouldn't go that far. I would say at least, they need some sort of > > license or copyright attribution. > > > > I'm slightly more concerned about whether it is legal to record the > > sounds that a drum machine makes and freely redistribute them without > > the manufacturers permission. > > Hmmm. > > I don't think there's any restriction on the use of those sounds in a > performance, but there may be restrictions on their use in a piece of > software. Do we know what sort of drum brains were used to generate the > samples? Alesis, Roland, Yamaha, Ddrum? Or are they samples recorded > from acoustic drums? The website claims that they came from Roland, Yamaha, Boss, and several other units. ~spot -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
