EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> Your view is in no way unusual.The copyright law does barely depend on
> the type of product. Compare your case with fonts for example: the one
> who makes the typesetting for a book has to buy the fonts. If the
> author owns the fonts and he gives them to the typesetting studio to
> produce his book, this is forbidden. Some years ago I ran into this
> problem every week. Maybe rules have changed today but, honestly, I
> broke the law quite often...
Then so have I! 

In the days when I had a commercial studio, I bought library and people
booked my place *BECAUSE* I had that library. I charged them a studio rate
and that money was used to repay my investment in the library I had bought
much like it repaid my investment in the MTR, desk, outboard, the sampler
the library was used in, the keyboard that played those samples, etc..

> So, If I have the VSL and bring my composition including the library to
> a studio, I guess the studio has to refuse if it does not own this
> library. Even if just one tone is used, this can be a violation of the
> copyright because VSL does not sell single tones. Yes, theory is far
> away from daily live, sometimes.
Well... it proves that the law's a bit of an ass with this one because if
what you say is true (and thinking about it, it appears it could well be), I
can't (in theory) take my Akai S5000 to a local studio with some commercial
library *I* have bought and *I* have licenced for use in *my* music because
the studio does not have that library and is potentially in violation of
copyright laws when it records it in my composition! Hmmmm!

But even if you are not using a commercial studio to record your music and
you literally do the whole track laying and mixdown process at home with no
contravention of copyright, technically, you cannot then take your master to
a mastering house because that facility doesn't have that library.... even a
CD pressing plant should refuse to take it!! Hmmmmm!

No doubt this one can run and run!

Anyway.... happy new year to all of you.


Best regards,


Steve
http://www.hollowsun.com