Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Funny thing about the Law:  whenever the gavel comes down, one side
loses.  Lawyers, by definition, work on a 50% failure rate.  No other
profession gets away with that.  Yet they're treated like "experts"...
go figure.
 
That said, "leaves the house" is not a standard of challenge.  Nor is
"played publicly".
 
For that matter "previously recorded" and even "song" is wide open for
interpretations and total exemptions of unenforcibility.  
 
Once it's been on the radio, the real legal changes start... dirty
little secret.
 
L.

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	From: swomp_rabbit@... 
	 

	 

	Doesn't matter whether you are trading them, giving them away or
selling them - if it is a previously recorded/published song the law
requires that it has to be licensed prior to any of those acts. If you
create a sequence of some previously published song in your home, which
is what you are doing, and it goes no further than that, then that is no
problem and no licenses are required. Once it leaves the house and is
played publicly or you distribute it then everything changes.