Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Well put!
 
It's to the point that no one actually cares what's codifed into Law,
but only the pertinent caselaw which somehow seems to trump everything
else.
It didn't start out that way, but it seems to be what we have today.  
 
Ohwell...
 
L.

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	From: swomp_rabbit@sbcglobal.net
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	Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:02 PM
	To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
	Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] RE: 80's Anyone?
	
	
	Leaving the letter of the law and getting to the reality of it -
I can certainly agree with that assessment.
	 
	SR
	 
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		From: EXT-Schurr, Larry A
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		To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com 
		Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:39 PM
		Subject: RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] RE: 80's Anyone?

		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@sbcglobal.net 
			 

			 

			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.