On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, iriXx wrote: > the sounds from a synth are normally licensed under the EULA in such a > way that the sound presets themselves are protected, but the creation of > any work from them is not. it cannot be - you are the one who makes > 'reasonable effort' to create a work from them. the judgement of how > much effort you put into a work is part of judging whether it can be > copyrighted. who's ever seen an EULA on a hardware synth? i haven't. > the copyright exists in the waveform and the sound library. you can't > copyright A400 Hz but you can copyright a preset. > it all goes back again to what i was saying about reasonable effort > being put into creating a work. i could write a program in a few hours that would create sysex files of every possible patch that the microKORG (or many other synths) can have. could i then copyright these and then demand payment from everyone who uses that synth with other than the original presets? -dave
