[linux-audio-user] Copyrights on samples

[Rick Taylor]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:13:06 +0200
Vincent Touquet <vincent.touquet at pandora.be> 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.}