On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:36:56PM -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 19:34 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:40:32AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > >>> 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. > >> Isn't that what every music production does? And when someone uses > >> their sound/music then they pay royalties to the musican's label, not > >> to the manufacturers of their music instruments. > > > > Sortof. This is more along the lines of: > > > > - copying the sounds that drum machine A makes > > - so that drum machine B can make the exact same sounds > > - then, giving away drum machine B (and advertising it as having the > > exact same sounds as drum machine A) There isn't yet a patent for "sound formulae", is there? > Yeah, I'm not sure that Roland would like the fact that they've got TD7 > sounds, despite the fact that Roland hasn't sold TD7's for oh, probably > eight or ten years now. Same for the Boss stuff (owned by Roland). But as you write it, it is a fact, and the kit above would not do any more advertising harm than what you did by writing the above lines ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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