Hi Yoonchi, No one can of course answer our question exactly, as no case has yet been up for trial. But as copyright laws are written, in most countries, it's either the musical composition or the actual sound recording that is protected. And a sample is a "sound recording". But a synth patch is definitely not. So my personal guess is that a recording of a sound created by a certain synth patch (= a sample) is not protected. A synth patch can however be protected by a certain patent but then it's also understood that the patch behave in a certain way regarding to the instruments hardware knobs (filters, lfo etc etc). And these things are nothing a sampler can rip from a real synth. So I guess you're safe here as well. Regards Per Boysen -------------------------------------------- BOYSEN MUSIK MEDIA INTERNET Url: http://www.boysen.se Mail: per@... Phone: int + 46 (08) 34 11 81 -------------------------------------------- -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: yoonchi@... [mailto:yoonchi@chello.nl] Skickat: den 2 juli 2001 17:11 Till: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com Ämne: [L-OT] Are synth sounds protected by copyright? Hi, This OT has been bugging me. When you use samples from a sample disk, you pay a licence fee(included in the price of the sample disk) to use samples. What happens if you have some synths and you sample the sounds of those synths and you use them when recording a project? Are you doing something illegal? With samples you get those tiny letters that say something about copyrights. But in my synth manual there isn't anything that says that the samples in the synth are protected by copyright. I wanted to discuss this since a lot of musicians do this when going on the road. But there are also people who distribute free samples of known synths on the net for free; I won't mention the link, but there were some pretty nice Soundfonts of some of the big name synths like Waldorf, Novation and Korg Oasys. I've also done some sampling of my synths, in case they go to synth-heaven, :-). Put them sounds nicely on CDR. So, when is it legal to use samples and when not? TIA, Yoonchi. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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2001-07-02 by Per Boysen