EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Christian Hellinger (yellow tools) wrote:
> "All unauthorised giving, trading, lending, renting, re-issuing,
> re-distribution or re-sale of this product or any of the sounds it
contains
> are expressly prohibited."

Nothing like this is (or was planned to be) happening through this group.

And also in Section 2.(Restrictions) of the Software License agreement....

>      "You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, distribute or create
derivative
> works
>      based upon the Software in whole or in part."

Again the same as above is true.

> As I'm sure you now understand, the distribution of these samples by
members
> of this list has to stop.

Nobody has planned to distribute any of your samples. So there's nothing
that has to be stopped.

All that was planned was to exchange EXS patches which are nothing else but
sample mapping information (so, the sampels would be the ones downloaded
from your site but wouldn't be redistributed at all).
I still can't see why this would be illegal at all.
A) I don't think you could prohibit the remapping of your samples in another
sampler to anybody. At least that would be quite new to me.
B) The actual EXS mapping isn't done by Yellow Tools, so it isn't your
intellectual property.
C) Just anybody could remap those sounds, and as said under A I don't thing
it could be prohibited.
.
IMO if a company doesn't like this, samples have to be distributed in a
proprietary format, just in the way, say, Spectrasonics do it.

Best,
Sascha