21 Mar
2008
21 Mar
'08
3:21 p.m.
drew Roberts wrote:
On Friday 21 March 2008 05:11:06 Frank Pirrone wrote:
Hey Philippe - it's a DR-550mkII
Hey Drew - there are no patents on paradiddles, for goodness sake!
Omigod...I swooned at the very thought:
USPTO#10987654321-0 registered to Microdruf®t of Redmond WA.
"any synthesized drum track that goes - boom chucka boom boom boom is
the soul intellectual property of MD® Please read the Yoolah® for
restrictions on how our EyePee® or EP® may be used...conditions subject
to change and Remote Disabling® or RD® of any composition representing
an Xtension® or Derivative Werk, DW® of our EP®. All Violateurs® or Vs®
will be prosecuted to the fullest Xtent® of the Law or MD-L®"
NO, the drum patterns are NOT copyright. If they WERE, once my head
cleared a bit, I would head directly to the USPTO and register every
damned note of the 12-tone even-tempered scale left unclaimed. The
royalties descending like manna from heaven of that alone boggle the
mind, but when I PATENT the means and methods of combining my registered
notes RN® shit... already taken, I'll be rich Rich RIch RICh RICH beyond
the very dreams of Croesus.
Frank
Aha, Philippe, the man with the missing
"e." I have a drum machine
Roland DR-50 I believe, that has the ability to output its patterns and
songs as MIDI files. I'll hook it up tomorrow to my MidiSport interface
and see if I can just pull them off. If I do, I'll post them on our
project site and let you know they're up.
Does anyone know if hardware drum machines claim any sort of copyrights in
thier supplied patterns?
Are such basic parts even able to be copyrighted? Always? Sometimes? Depending
on?
Otherwise, it's after 5AM here in EDT, so
I'm not even going to ponder
your non-trollish stuff above!
Frank
all the best,
drew