Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Copyrights on samples
From: Joern Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 12:22:31 EEST
Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anyone know if it's legal to:
>
> * sample the grandpiano of the latest Roland/Korg/Yamaha electric piano
> * give the sample away
> * package it (sf2) and put it on my web site
>
if you are prepared to go through all the pain of trimming and looping
zillions of samples, why not do the real thing ?
there is a raw set of steinway grand samples floating around on the net
somewhere (was even announced to this list iirc), and i think it's even
an anechoic recording.
the license was something along the lines of "free for the taking".
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