13 Oct
2003
13 Oct
'03
10:17 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:54:04PM +0100, iriXx wrote:
actually... i beg to differ.
you will have a certain element of copyright in your mechanical
recording of the piano, but the copyright in the sample still belongs to
korg/roland/yamaha etc, who are likely to be quite protective of them.
Roland seems to be indeed, this was on Slashdot some days ago:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/11/1833213
there may, as has been mentioned, be licensing
provisions but i'd
suggest they'd be highly unlikely to extend to relicensing these samples
for redistribution. if they do allow this - then wahey, i think we
should all celebrate and start a GPL-distributed sf2 project. but i
seriously doubt this would be the case. a proprietary company doesnt
spend millions on developing an electric piano or synth for nothing.
it would be analagious to someone re-recording one of your songs and
then claiming that they own the copyright on your song.
Hmm, this analogy doesn't seem right. First of all, the samples in a synth
are of course meant to be redistributed in some way. Also there is a
difference between 'copyright of a song' and 'copyright of a recording'.
Some rap producers are actually re-recording phrases from songs so they don't
have to go through the hassles of sample-clearing.
There are soundfonts of resampled digital synths already available on sites
like hammersound, but that doesn't have to mean they are 100% legal of course.
cheers,
Christian