listen AFG you are talking in circles. Liontracs when they sold the MS keyboard up until version 04 i estimate were not selling styles that had been created in yamaha format by users and then packaged with the keyboard. They were selling actual yamaha styles that had been programmed by yamaha for their own arranger keyboards and then converted for use on the MS. Your attempt to fool anyone that it was just yamaha format styles being used on the MS is rediculous ! They were in yamaha format because they were yamaha styles !! Not user styles or original styles programmed by Dom or his employees for the MS!

this is what you said in relation to the court judgement about copyright concerning yamaha styles and remember the judgement was about the style data.

You said :

'so if Yamaha has claimed that Yamaha is first company which proposed copyright to rom styles,

what they mean?
that it is first time, and Yamaha is first company?
and why in 2008?
and why The Court�s judgment was the first in the world ?
and why only in China?

and read this part of Article:

The Court�s judgment was the first in the world to recognize that �Style Data is intellectual property that is subject to protection under copyright laws� and that �unauthorized copying of such Style Data is an infringement of copyrights.� Yamaha believes this judgment is an epoch-making legal development and holds the content of the settlement arbitrated by the Court in high regard since it recognizes virtually all of Yamaha�s assertions. Looking ahead, Yamaha will continue to work to respect and protect intellectual property and to take a resolute stand against the infringement of intellectual property rights.

----What does this mean?- '

If thats not a question about the court judgement and its meaning then what is it ???????????????

Lets cut to the chase AND ANSWER ME THIS, HAS DOM EVER IN THE PAST SOLD OR GIVEN AWAY YAMAHA ARRANGER STYLES (style data the format is irrelevant) FROM EXISTING YAMAHA ARRANGER PRODUCTS PACKAGED AS A BUNdLE ON THE MS AS PART OF THE SALE OF THE MS ? Just a simple yes or no will do. I cant be doing with 'searches' to try and understand circular points you are making. Yamaha style format is not copy righted but their data is. This is clear and agreed already


[This message has been edited by spalding1968 (edited 06-13-2010).]