On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:13:06 +0200 Vincent Touquet <vincent.touquet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:46:39AM +0200, Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: >>Hi >>Does anyone know if it's legal to: >>* sample the grandpiano of the latest Roland/Korg/Yamaha electric piano >>* give the sample away >>* package it (sf2) and put it on my web site > >IMHO it is totally legal if you do your own recording (you create the >samples yourself, so you own the copyright), this is the way a lot of >sample cds of instruments work. > >Ripping sounds from ROMs is impossible under the DMCA, unless you own >the device yourself. Unless you render it unrecognizable. {It's somewhere in the DMCA faq. Tho' it only makes sense... If it's not a copy... it's not a copyright violation.}