[linux-audio-user] Legalities of impulse responses

[Ken Restivo]

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OK, this one is confusing:

http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/projects/poririrs/

	SIRR processed data are Copyright ©2005 by Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). 
	All other data are Copyright ©2005 by TKK, Akukon Oy Consulting Engineers, and the 
	authors. The data are provided free for noncommercial purposes, provided the authors 
	are cited when the data are used in any research application. Commercial use is 
	prohibited and allowed only by written permission of the copyright owners. 

IANAL, but if I'm reading this license correctly then these IR's are useless for music. It sounds like any data processed using it (i.e. reverb using this hall's IR) then becomes the property of TKK. Gah!

What exactly is "commercial use" of a reverb? I'd have to think that'd mean commercial redistribution of the IR's, including them in commercial products, not using them in a song or production, no?

I mean, that'd be like Alesis or Roland claiming to own the copyright of anything played on or through their DSP gear, wouldn't it?

- -ken
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