EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 25.01.2005, at 12:04, Henrik Buus Jensen wrote:

> Is it legal to download a demo of a VSTi, sample the sounds, then
> use the samples in EXS24 without buying the original product?
>
> I'm thinking no, but not sure.


Yet I know only the Austrian situation, but I think it is very similar 
in other countries:

If the owner says you are allowed to use the samples for whatever you 
want, clearly, or accidently by an awkward phrase in his license, they 
are free. If not, not. If there is no license of any sort, the samples 
are not free. Just like with your car: you don't need a sticker "This 
car must not be stolen!" (it gets stolen anyway, like the samples... 
:-)

We differentiate between the "right on the original" and the "right of 
use". If you compose music, these state cannnot be changed - you are 
the composer forever. So the "right on the original" cannot be sold or 
transferred. But you can transfer the usage rights (which we understand 
as "copyright" in Austria). You say what others are allowed to do with 
your creation and they are bound to that.


Peter Ostry