Re: Bug #383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-27 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 27 May 2007 10:21:26 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what if the recording was of actual people playing actual instruments? You know, like people always used to. How to you generate that from 'source' at build time? what _is_ the source? The

Re: Bug #383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 25 May 2007 11:30:07 -0400 Nathanael Nerode wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: We must determine what is the preferred form for making modifications to the song. I'm not sure an Ogg Vorbis + MIDI form qualifies... [...] I believe that for a recording to be DFSG-free, we need *both*

Re: Bug #383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
Francesco Poli wrote: Now, it would be preferable to be able to regenerate the recording from the MIDI. Which would mean including the soundfonts (instrument descriptions, basically) used. So the question of whether they are free is also important. Really important, IMO.

Re: Bug #383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Francesco Poli wrote: We must determine what is the preferred form for making modifications to the song. I'm not sure an Ogg Vorbis + MIDI form qualifies... What sort of modifications? ...Actually, a concept from copyright law may help here. There are *two* copyrights on any given recording.

Re: Bug#383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 13 May 2007 01:06:01 +0100 (BST) MJ Ray wrote: Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There's another issue with the remaining four songs, though. Is their source available? I mean: what's the preferred form[1] for making modifications to the songs? Is this form

RE: Bug#383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-13 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: We must determine what is the preferred form for making modifications to the song. I'm not sure an Ogg Vorbis + MIDI form qualifies... I think that's quite complex to decide on a single-game basis, as that decision might affect most of other

Re: Bug#383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 13 May 2007 19:11:32 +0200 (CEST) Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: We must determine what is the preferred form for making modifications to the song. I'm not sure an Ogg Vorbis + MIDI form qualifies... I think that's quite complex to decide

Re: Bug#383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-12 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if the author says that it's a metal version of Ryu's theme, I think he means that the melody is the same, even though the musical genre is changed. *If* this is the case, I would call it a cover and hence I'm afraid it qualifies as an