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.schroe...@gmail.com> 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 <br...@hamsterrepublic.com> > 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 <bro...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> >
