On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:54:04PM +0100, iriXx wrote: > actually... i beg to differ. > > you will have a certain element of copyright in your mechanical > recording of the piano, but the copyright in the sample still belongs to > korg/roland/yamaha etc, who are likely to be quite protective of them. > Roland seems to be indeed, this was on Slashdot some days ago: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/11/1833213 > there may, as has been mentioned, be licensing provisions but i'd > suggest they'd be highly unlikely to extend to relicensing these samples > for redistribution. if they do allow this - then wahey, i think we > should all celebrate and start a GPL-distributed sf2 project. but i > seriously doubt this would be the case. a proprietary company doesnt > spend millions on developing an electric piano or synth for nothing. > > it would be analagious to someone re-recording one of your songs and > then claiming that they own the copyright on your song. > Hmm, this analogy doesn't seem right. First of all, the samples in a synth are of course meant to be redistributed in some way. Also there is a difference between 'copyright of a song' and 'copyright of a recording'. Some rap producers are actually re-recording phrases from songs so they don't have to go through the hassles of sample-clearing. There are soundfonts of resampled digital synths already available on sites like hammersound, but that doesn't have to mean they are 100% legal of course. cheers, Christian
