EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

My info is that I think it was 15 seconds of any sound is not subject to copyright law. It falls into the category of sound effects and is fair game. I'm not a lawyer. I used to be a BMI publisher to a very limited extent back in the day.

I hope this helps point you in the right direction.

Denny


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> To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> From: first_avatar@...
> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:17:45 -0700
> Subject: Re: [EXS] Re: Hollow Sun and EXS= DownloadAll?
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> 
>> Right. Those Hollow Sun instruments used to be offered from Steve for
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>> free, but then he eventually had to make money
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> While having to make money might've been one (very valid) point, perhaps
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> even the main point, it wasn't the only one, though. Another point has been
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> the fact that very rarely folks even came up with a "thank you, Steve". They
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> were just loading the sounds and that was about it. And IMO there's been
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> some really excellent patches which defenitely deserved more than simply
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> running away with them. I still use quite some of those patches on a
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> regularly base.
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> Regards
> 
> Sascha
> 
> Hmmm...
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> I was thinking of doing a Radiohead style pay what you want thing for a 50's - 60's vintage BBC sound effects library after I put it into EXS instrument format from vinyl, presuming that licensing and copyright issues can be dealt with. It's a ton of work but it'd be fun.
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> Am I crazy or is it a good idea? I'm doing it more out of a sense of altruism and preservation of the content than anything else but if any one wanted to give me a few bucks I'd take it.
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> Any advice would be well appreciated.
> 
> Randy
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> 

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