EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of spectrumep <PersingEP@...>, 09-01-2003:

>If you licensed a sample
>from MCA records for a project, you pay a fee, and you don't gain
>the right to sell that license to someone else. Commercial
>samples are the same idea, but with the bonus of being able to
>use them on as many projects as you like. However, not having
>to pay for everytime you use the samples (license-free) has bred
>a strong sense of ownership of the sounds and CDs in users,
>and customers forget that it was a generous one-time license
>fee, and not a "product" that you are actually buying.

But then still...  The guy from YT said they provided the demo 
license-free (or words to that effect - don't have the original post 
anymore), so you were free to use the demo sounds in your own music 
(I remember that correctly, don't I?).   And even if you were not 
allowed to use the demo samples in your songs: making an EXS patch is 
not the same as using the samples in your song.  Maybe someone using 
the demo simply thinks the EXS has a better interface to work wth the 
demo samples or whatever.

This discussion is very interesting imo.  I have the feeling the 
YT-folks don't have a case whatsoever.  The only thing they could 
(maybe) do, is provide the demo with the notification that you're not 
allowed to use the samples in the demo in whichever way in your own 
work.  Purchasing the entire thing would of course give you a license 
to actually use them.
This still would in no way forbid to make EXS patches for the samples 
though -- not even for the demo samples.  IMO it's completely 
impossible to do so.  That would be the same as saying you're not 
allowed to enter the samples in your FileMaker database (as that 
basically also only is a bunch of pointers to files on disk).

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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