The Mellotron Group

Here's a photo of Fritz with his iPhone, reporting from iPhonekstan. Notice 
 he is wearing the traditional clothing.
 
 
(http://stlouisreview.com/sites/default/files/article-images/137252/seminarian_itouch.jpg) 
 
 
In a message dated 2/24/2011 1:31:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
fdoddy@aol.com writes:

 
 
 
Typically, musicians waive their right to any performance royalties in  
"sample" situations. In the case of synths, you could create your own  patches 
and sell them. However, you could not simply copy the patch info and  resell 
it. Since the synth owners already have the patch presets, this rairly  
needs to be enforced. I am not sure of the finer points when it comes to  
sampling a synth. Obviously, there has been many a blind eye turned toward  this.

Sorry for the brevity as I am replying from a remote region of  
iPhonekstan.  


fritzdoddy


On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:23 PM, "John Wright" <_john.wright@consona.com_ 
(mailto:john.wright@consona.com) >  wrote:





 
It's a good question.  I did a  little googling and as usual can't really 
find anything exactly on  point.  What Fritz says makes sense, but the 
license is implied.   I doubt if Trons were shipped with a license like a shrink 
wrapped piece of  software has these days.
 
But, for the musicians  that recorded the sounds for the Chamberlin and 
Mellotron masters, I  assume it was just another gig and they were paid.  
Wouldn't that  potentially relinquish future rights and royalties?   

John
#911


 
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 From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)   [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Fritz  
Doddy
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:52 AM
To:  _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
Subject:  Re: [newmellotrongroup] samples and copyright




You don't own the sounds, but are granted a license to use them as  you 
will.

Sorry for the brevity as I am replying from a remote  region of 
iPhonekstan.  


fritzdoddy


On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:47 AM, mattias <_Mattias.olsson5@comhem.se_ 
(mailto:Mattias.olsson5@comhem.se) >  wrote:





 
I recorded an entire album with only Mellotron,  Orchestron and Optigan and 
I have always thought that if you have bought  the instrument you would own 
the sounds ? 

//  Mattias




Den 2011-02-24 17.36, skrev "Dieter" <_dieter_vanmarcke@yahoo.com_ 
(mailto:dieter_vanmarcke@yahoo.com) >:







Hello

I  started recording some tracks featuring Mellotron, Optigan and  
Orchestron.  Now, I was wondering, in fact, all these sounds are  just samples - who 
owns the copyright on these recordings? In fact,  can you just use this 
free?
I know that with the usual tron sounds  nobody bothers and just puts them 
on their records, but it was in fact  when I was using the optigan, where you 
have loops of recorded big  band and such, at that point this question came 
up to  me...

thanks

Dieter