EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 20. Feb 2005, at 14:42, taylormorgantaylor wrote:

>> Actually I am astonished how that is handled in the music-related
>> industry. According to my experience companies tend to ignore 
>> licensing
>> questions from people they do not know.
>>
>> Peter Ostry
>>
>  Hi..I don't understand what you are talking about.Can you expand what 
> you
> mean Thanks..T

Some time ago I built a large set of environment tools for Logic, 
especially for remote controllers. I wanted to name it "Logic Quick 
Tools" and a subset "Korg MC-1". So I asked Emagic and Korg and did not 
get answers. Later on I asked the people at VSL about using their 
samples in a studio which does not own the library. No answer. There 
was no unclearness in my questions - the mail to Korg was just two 
sentences, Emagic speaks German like me and VSL is just half an hour 
away from my home.

On the other hand you get immediate response from two software 
companies (one German, one American) about naming products built with 
their software. They tell exactly what you can do and how to put the 
name. And I am used to answer licensing questions myself. We had a 
web-based email system which could be licensed. And we have still a 
system for creditcard authorization which people want to license now 
and then. We do not give licenses for that but naturally people ask 
before they go in for something.

I am puzzled that companies who partly live on licenses do not talk 
about them. But they are very quick to sue each other. Stupid game, in 
my opinion.


Peter Ostry