The Mellotron Group

Welcome to the group John! Is this your first post here?
 
John is the owner of the "Johnny Neel" Mellotron, #525
 
Frank
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/25/2011 4:30:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
hammaren@geoconcepts.com writes:

 
 
 
 
Well, as a  programmer, that’s not entirely true. Whatever agreement was 
signed whether  that person was an employee or outside consultant would 
dictate what  remuneration was received. If the agreement stipulated that the 
employee or  consultant received a royalty in whatever fashion was agreed, then 
that would  be it. But, on the other hand the agreement would be between 
those two  entities, not the end-user or consumer. In that case, whatever 
agreement or  license agreement that was agreed to upon sale of such product 
would be in  force between end user and manufacturer of product. I have not 
looked at  whatever legalese came with my Triton for example, but since I have 
not read  about any brouhahas regarding this, it is probably safe to assume 
that end  users are granted a general use license for whatever purpose 
including  performance. That’s not to say the programmer may not get a cut of 
total unit  sales. What probably would not be included would be redistribution 
of said  programs for the purpose of the end-user profiting from that work. 
Pretty much  the same as if you cloned a Triton and sold it as a TritonGrande’
 with all the  sounds intact. But there is nothing to say he couldn’t 
profit from  performances of his work if the end-user agreement stipulated it. 
Kind of hard  to enforce this, but the way things are getting in this world, 
don’t count  this out some day. Particularly since we are at the point where 
every, and I  mean every device and person will have an IPV6 address in 20 
or 30 years and  whatever it is we will do will have some form of tracking 
associated with it.  Look at Microsoft. Software as a service is a prime 
example – compose a doc  and pay them a royalty. That’s their future. 
It ain;t  mine. 
Cheers, 
John 
 
 
From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com  
[mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of  fdoddy@aol.com
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:44  PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Re: samples and copyright

 
 
 
He probably signed a "work for  hire" agreement, and besides, it is not a 
performance, but  instead,programming.  In the US, there is no performance 
royalty on  programming, that would make no sense.


fd



 

 

 

 
-----Original  Message-----
From: mattias <Mattias.olsson5@comhem.se>
To:  newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Feb  25, 2011 12:46 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: samples and  copyright 
 
 
 
 
 
How about the  guy who programmed  the synthbrass sound  on the DX7 ?

Should  he get paid or sued everytime the sound is heard on the radio ?

//  Mattias


Den 2011-02-25 17.56, skrev "Mike Dickson" <_mike.dickson@gmail.com_ 
(mailto:mike.dickson@gmail.com) >:






On  25/02/2011 13:01, feline1973 wrote:  



Nobody  knows the name of the people on the tapes and so PPL don't have 
this info so  they ain't getting paid at  present.



Well..we know some of them.  Trouble is I suspect most of them are dead.