Re: [linux-audio-user] Copyrights on samples

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Copyrights on samples
From: iriXx (m_AT_irixx.org)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 13:17:30 EEST

> The idea of copyrighting a single note strikes me as a bit strange.
>
> Maybe it applies to the library as a whole?
>
> {I've no idea.}

the copyright exists in the waveform and the sound library. you can't
copyright A400 Hz but you can copyright a preset.
it all goes back again to what i was saying about reasonable effort
being put into creating a work.

m~ 

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