EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Fernstudio wrote:
> 
> It becomes a little bit more difficult to understand when you own a 
> library and work on some music along with someone.  For example, I 
> worked on a track for a solo artist last year.  I arranged the entire 
> track (just one song) and used some samples on it.  These are samples 
> that I own a license for.  I checked first with the manufacturer to be 
> sure but was told that if I am creating the music, then it is perfectly 
> legal.  It would not have been (legal) if I simply let that artist use 
> my sampler that has the samples loaded on its hard drive.  Hope that I 
> didn't make it more confusing now.

Thanks Fernstudio, that makes sense.

I was sorta following this thread and thinking a far less polite version 
of: "What?! If you make a living out of doing arrangements and 
recordings for other people you can't legally use the sample libraries 
you've bought when you do their tracks?! Then what's the point of having 
them?!"

It still seems unfair, though, that I can't go to a friend's place and 
use his legally purchased sample libraries in the same way that I can 
use his legally purchased hardware synths. I was actually planning to do 
this in a coupla months, thinking I'd be a good law-abiding citizen for 
doing that rather than just getting a copy of the sample libraries (as 
I'm sure many others would!) Yet it seems that even though I would'nt be 
copying the libraries, and my friend wouldn't be able to use them while 
I was, it'd still be illegal? :-(

I'm *very* much in favour of not stealing other people's work, and 
sometimes get strange looks and ridicule for not copying music CDs, but 
not being allowed to use a friend's sample libraries in his studio (in 
the same way that I can use his hardware synths) doesn't seem right to me.

What if I were to email him a MIDI file and ask him to record it using 
the most angelic choir sound he had (which might happen to be, for 
example, the female choir from Voices of the Apocalypse), make any 
appropriate adjustments to the MIDI file, then post me the resulting 
wave files on CD? How legal would that be?