Re: [pygame] are individual midi instruments sounds copyrighted

[Thiago Chaves <shundread@xxxxxxxxx>]

Goddamn this Copyright madness. There is no month in which I don't see
a bizarre copyright question being asked.

Within a few years people will be blurring images of furniture in
television because displaying the furniture will potentially infringe
a design.

A decade ago things seemed to be so much simpler, how the hell did all
of this happen?

-Thiago

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Bryce Schroeder
<bryce.schroeder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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