You dont know if Dom sold the MS with styles from yamaha in the past ?????? where have you been for the last 4-5 years ? Ok you say you dont know and i will accept that.

But your reasoning is seriously flawed.

For example , your reasoning about yamaha and lawsuits in relation to instrument sound samples is flawed. Up until yamaha pursued the 4 companies in china concerning style stealing, to my knowledge ,no one else had successfully sued a company for stealing arranger styles , does that mean for the period before the cited court judgement that stealing styles was legal ???? Why didnt korg do it or roland ? Do we have to wait for them to sue somebody too before we can conclude that stealing their style data is illegal ?

Listen AFG i dont know if i have understood the points you have raised correctly and if i have misunderstood you then i apologise.I wish i could speak in your language as well as you speak english and maybe we could converse further but for now its not really that importnat anymore.

As far as cloning an entire keyboards sounds is concerned i suspect it will be resolved by the law eventually but for now i think it would be a high risk business decision to do so.

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