[linux-audio-user] Re: Tracker Repository Copyright?

[Chris Pickett]

jmstone at dsl.pipex.com wrote:
> Dario Sanfilippo <tirriddiliu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:55:36 +0100, James Stone <jmstone at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I have found an amazing archive of tracker XI instruments at
>>>
>>>http://www.kiarchive.ru/pub/misc/sounds/samples/ft2/
>>>
>>>I was wondering if others were aware of this resource, and also if anyone
>>>knows who made the samples in the first place and what their copyright
>>>status is? I have emailed the maintainer of the archive but he is yet to
>>>reply.
>>
>>In many countries, 'creative' works are automatically
>>fully-copyrighted (All Rights Reserved) as soon as they are fixed in a
>>tangible medium of expression.
>>Even if there's no particular notice.
>>
>>Dario.
>>
> 
> 
> The problem is knowing who the samples/instruments belong to as there
> is no notice. Since they seem to have been made freely available on the
> internet, one would assume that the author(s) wanted them to be used by
> other people... (!) 

I would seriously question any download from a Russian website.  Not 
with any prejudice, that's just how things are.

Chris