That's why csound is so handy for creating sound-alike custom ROMs, you can make a bunch of patches that sound roland-esque, but if it comes down to it, you can show the code for your original sounds. On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:33, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:15, Christian Henz wrote: > > > > > > > Roland seems to be indeed, this was on Slashdot some days ago: > > > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/11/1833213 > > Absolutely, when it's the use of the digital representation basically > right out of their ROM. That's not cool. That's theft. (And I'm not > saying that is what this project was doing. They may just be getting > pushed around with this legal letter.) > > > > > > > > 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. > > Exactly. > > As I said earlier, simply recording the existing samples isn't all that > interesting to me. On the other hand, adding some processing, modifying > the sound, and coming up with something much more original would likely > pass the test, and, as far as I know, if you record the analog version > of the sound you are not bound by digital rights management. > > (That said, I'm sure someone here will disagree, so at the outset I'll > just say that's my understanding and is not legal advice.) > > Cheers, > Mark >
