Originally posted by spalding1968:
you just dont get it Genesys.
AMEI stands for
Association of Musical Electronics Industry. It is not yamahas view on copyright. It is the industry's view !!!
Next answer this question Genesys and then it will all fall into place.
1. Who is the author/owner of a piano sound ?
2. How can you tell ? Think back to what i said about the original creator ?
3. what is the content or intellectual property being protected ?
4. Now who is the author/owner of a sample created by yamaha/korg/roland of a piano sound ?
5. how can you tell ?
6. What is the intellectual property being protected ?
Some things can be copyrighted because you can identify the owner/author and you can clearly identify the intellectual property being protected. If you cant clearly identify the Author such as the creator of the piano (the original piano like 300 years ago) or the property being protected ( what is being protected with the piano, or what is the content) it is incapable of falling under the shadow of copyright law.
Sure i cant use trademark names like Rhodes or Steinway but i can certainly use the sampled sounds.
[This message has been edited by spalding1968 (edited 06-18-2010).]
now i ask you who is the author/owner of fist sample based music instrument sound?
answer:
Chamberlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamberlin who is first original creator of of fist sample based music instrument.
answer:
Chamberlin
did Chamberlin protect his samples?
answer:
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did Chamberlin copyright the sound prodused by his sample based music instrument?
answer:
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did one from big 3 ever sampled or redampled sounds from Chamberlins sample based music instruments or Mellotron?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron answer:
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So this discussion is not as easy as you think.
other example:
if you use one style from your arranger on stage and you have this instruments sounds inside your style Drumkit-Guitar-Bass
then this damage is caused by your sample-based hardware music instrument sounds
1- 3 less players
2- 3 fewer instruments sold by real instrument makers.
now if they are 1000 users round the world that use the same style like you did what impact will it have for the real instrument makers and analog synth makers and their players only for one day?
is that fair?
is not better if big 3 say we copyright our wave data on romchip, but the final sound from output is not copyrighted becouse we also sample sounds from other sources freely?
[This message has been edited by AFG Music (edited 06-18-2010).]