Re: [pygame] are individual midi instruments sounds copyrighted

[Bryce Schroeder <bryce.schroeder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hear, hear. I imagine Yamaha just wants to keep people from taking
their samples and using them in another instrument or midi rendering
software...

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well the midi version of your composition is absolutely your own and no-one
> else's, and there are other ways to render it to wav/ogg/whatever besides
> the line out of your keyboard, which don't restrict your ability to
> distribute and sell your product, so you always have options. If you have
> access to a mac, for instance, garageband instrument samples give a
> royalty-free license to use to make renderings of midi music.
>
> That being said, I would be *amazed* if rendering down your own music wasn't
> an "authorized use" of the yamaha keyboard. That copyright notice you have
> there isn't clear at all at what is and isn't authorized, it just says that
> "personal use" is always OK, and that's basically a meaningless statement
> because what they say is already given by copyright law. I think bottom line
> is you are in a grey area with that keyboard unless you find something more
> about what is exactly authorized or licensed. You could try emailing Yamaha
> support if you really cared, but if I were you, I would assume it's totally
> fine and just use my own rendered music however I like, cause it would be
> ridiculous and stupid if yamaha ever tried to claim infringement in a case
> like yours, bad for their business. The reality of copyright and IP law is
> that the only thing that is actually in violation is what is enforced by the
> copyright holder.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Brian Brown <brobab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I think I have an idea of what to do now.
>> I think I will just keep making my music and if I find it is unusable
>> for my game, I should just use it personally.
>> Thanks everybody for all your help. I appreciate it.
>> Matt
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