EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi Sascha

I maybe just as confused as you are but let me comment on the three 
situations you describe. These are my own personal guidelines to find 
a middle ground between copyright paranoia and ignorance.

--- In exs-users@y..., "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@s...> wrote:
> A) Admitting that I download samples from the internet? Will the 
police come
> to my home because I might have downloaded some stuff which wasn't 
copyright
> free? Aww...

Frankly, who cares what you have on your harddisk? Noone. Your 
concern should be in case you release music to the general public 
where you use sounds and/or loops that could be copyright protected. 
This only goes for stuff that you honestly feel relatively safe 
about, right? If you know that stuff you have downloaded, ripped or 
whatever IS in fact copyright protected, then noone would proabably 
find out but in that case you are "breaking the law" with your eyes 
open and it's up to you and your conscience how you feel about that.

> B) Or admitting that the loop I posted was from the internet? Which 
then
> could mean that I was eventually supplying copyrighted stuff 
illegaly?

As a general rule I wouldn't pass on stuff I had downloaded from the 
Net without being pretty sure that it was copyright free. I wouldn't 
feel good about it.  

> C) Or is it the fact that this congaloop sounds like one you could 
very well
> find on some sample CDs too?

I probably wouldn't care about that. If it sounds like something but 
you know it isn't the thing, then you don't have to bother. If I had 
received loops or samples from someone who made them himself and he 
told me that it's okay to pass them on then I would feel okay doing 
that. 

...have to stop now. The police are knocking on my door, now they 
enter, now they take my P.
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