Acceptable for inclusion: drumkits for hydrogen

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 07:37 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> >From what I saw by sneaking into a subset of these files,
> - They lack any license or copyright information.
> 
> - They are sound files (sound samples), being usable stand-alone with a
> little processing (They are plain tar.gz's of *.wav's and *.flac's)
> being obscured by using a nonstandard file suffix).
> 
> - Question, I don't know the answer to: Do these sound samples qualify
> as "artwork" (and therefore have to be considered to be covered by
> "artistic" copyright laws)?

I wouldn't go that far. I would say at least, they need some sort of
license or copyright attribution.

I'm slightly more concerned about whether it is legal to record the
sounds that a drum machine makes and freely redistribute them without
the manufacturers permission.

~spot