The Mellotron Group

John,
 
Your posts here need not be brief, but they should be filled with  
misspellings and poor syntax. Then you'll fit right in. . As for spam, I get none 
from  this group. It may be because Clay loves Spam and keeps it all for  
himself.
 
 
In a message dated 2/25/2011 8:47:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
hammaren@geoconcepts.com writes:

 
 
 
 
Thanks  Frank, 
Yes, it is my  first post. I hope to get pics up from your spectacular 
restoration  (resurrection is a more apt term, I think) of Mr. Neel as soon as I 
 can. 
Thanks again,  and I know this is the right group, since the spam is 
greatly outnumbered by  the relevant posts. I hope to not be so verbose in the 
future. This is a  common thing over at the Dotcom group, so it kind of rubs  
off. 
Greeting to  all. 
John 
 
 
From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com  
[mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of  lsf5275@aol.com
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 6:22  PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Re: samples and copyright

 
 
 
 
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.