The Mellotron Group

You are too good to me.

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

fritzdoddy

On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:28 PM, lsf5275@aol.com wrote:

> Here's a photo of Fritz with his iPhone, reporting from iPhonekstan.  
> Notice he is wearing the traditional clothing.
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> In a message dated 2/24/2011 1:31:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, fdoddy@aol.com 
>  writes:
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> 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.
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> Sorry for the brevity as I am replying from a remote region of  
> iPhonekstan.
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> fritzdoddy
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> On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:23 PM, "John Wright" <john.wright@consona.com>  
> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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] On Behalf Of Fritz Doddy
>> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:52 AM
>> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] samples and copyright
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>>
>> 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
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>> On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:47 AM, mattias <Mattias.olsson5@comhem.se>  
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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
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>>> Den 2011-02-24 17.36, skrev "Dieter" <dieter_vanmarcke@yahoo.com>:
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>>> Hello
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>>> 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
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