[linux-audio-user] Copyrights on samples
Joern Nettingsmeier
nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de
Tue Oct 14 05:39:00 EDT 2003
Atte André 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
>
if you are prepared to go through all the pain of trimming and looping
zillions of samples, why not do the real thing ?
there is a raw set of steinway grand samples floating around on the net
somewhere (was even announced to this list iirc), and i think it's even
an anechoic recording.
the license was something along the lines of "free for the taking".
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