I would bet the Motif XS has the same wording in their manual and the Motif is used commercially buy mega acts and in shows and on CDs all over the world to a far greater extent than a T3 Arranger. The Motif has 6000 Arps that can be constructed into material for sale and performance for commercial use.

I am sure Yamaha is not going to go after someone who sells CD's at their sets or makes demos using styles present of the Yamaha. That would be like buying a loop disk for personal use only. IF the song is going to sell a million copies it would in all likelihood be rerecorded anyway.

I see it more like most on PK. They would rather someone does not reverse engineer their styles for use in competitor's products (which is being done far more then Hit songs are being sold using their styles)

The fact seems to be, money is being earned using these keyboards in performance and recordings and I have not heard of a single case of royalties being demanded for the use of keyboard sounds or arps. An arrangement is a fancy loop or Arp/

Much ado about nothing. If you really want to scare yourself ask your clients if they pay a blanket fee to ASACP, BMI and or SESAC. If they don't YOU are responsible to.
if you play music covered by them.

I have personal experience with SESAC as Neils moved his library to them for a very handsome upfront payment. SESAC became real aggressive and went after users. Legends got a nasty notice and Micky Gilley told me he dropped 'America' and 'Sweet Caroline' from his show in Branson after a
settlement". No one knew this. SESAC was a small player. He went on to removed a few seats from the theater because payment to ASCAP and BMI was based on seat count. Neil was the only artist who' music he was performing in his show that wasn't part of BMI or ASCAP Performance Organizations.

IF anyone is playing a wedding or in any public place that is not under a blanket contract with those organizations they are subject to lawsuit for non payment of performance royalties.



[This message has been edited by Kingfrog (edited 12-30-2008).]