It does not matter how much we disagree with the rights or wrongs of copywrite the facts are that whoever owns the copywrite on a particular item & that in it's self is a preverbal nightmare because in music it covers just about everything (remember Napster) then they own the legal right to decide who can use it. I suppose that you could say that copywrite law is much the same as patent law in that in its very basic form it is a protection of ideas.

For the same reason that Technote made such drastic changes to that forum was because possibly someone was freely giving away openly on their forum Technotes own xmas disk & probably other files, so they obviously decided rather than send the man round they would change the forum in such a way so that such things could not continue I.E. no email addresses in the posts. So we effectively lost a very good forum although it is still there things are not quite the same. At the time I felt very aggrieved & had my say.
I would hate to see this forum go down that same road purely because people feel the need to openly on the internet give away copywrite material & they do.
Regards
Johnnie.

Napstar is a wrong example because who ones the copywright is obvious. The artist paid a fee for the songs or wrote the songs themselves.
The Xmas disk from Technote also. If they paid royalties to the owners of the rights of the Xmas songs for using them, then there is a copyright.

But when they or sombody else even one of the members of this site make a e.g. a sounddisk only by changing some parameters of the keyboard than there is no copywright. Only you could pay a kind of fee for there efforts to do this. Because all the things to get to that sound are free accessable for everyone who have that kind of keyboard.
Even by making a style. As said before. A foxtrot is a foxtrot. And look at the naming of some styles in the KN6000. "Ribon"
"Carpenter" which have some massures and the feeling of that particular song or group.

rgds
Wim

[QUOTE]Originally posted by waterschip:
[B]Some thoughts about copyright of styles.
in my opion an 8 beat or a hip hop is a music style not created by, for example, Technote or other style disk sellers.

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