Re: [pygame] are individual midi instruments sounds copyrighted

[Thiago Chaves <shundread@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry. Evidently you'll be able to buy "professional broadcaster"
versions of the furniture, which is pretty much the same thing, but
incredibly more expensive. And you're still not allowed to utilize the
furniture in any way that looks offensive to the company that provided
it i.e. implying the furniture is not resistant, not pleasant to the
eyes or displaying the furniture in a controversial video.

-Thiago

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Thiago Chaves <shundread@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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