Would like to see an attorneys view on this subject. What kind of legal actions could yamaha actually take to enforce this issue.

I understand that you could copyright the original styles. I doubt though that those websites/newsgroups distribute the original yamaha styles, since most people allready have those in their keyboards. Who is going to decide how much a style must be modified to call it your own?

Do all people that play yamaha boards professional have to pay a portion of their fee to yamaha? Does a carpenter do that with the manufacturer of his hammer? If styles are copyrighted and can not be distributed, what about sounds and samples?

Just thinking out loud.


In my opinion this is a bad mistake from yamaha. Do they realy think they improve their market doing this? I know GEM sells dedicated disks with sounds and styles, but i never have seen anything like that form yamaha. They inly effect will be that more and more people will not buy yamaha anymore.
(I personally have never liked them anyhow, to "plastic")

[This message has been edited by arnothijssen (edited 01-30-2002).]