Acceptable for inclusion: drumkits for hydrogen

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 10:13 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 07:37 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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> >> >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.
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> I don't think there's any restriction on the use of those sounds in a
> performance, but there may be restrictions on their use in a piece of
> software. Do we know what sort of drum brains were used to generate the
> samples? Alesis, Roland, Yamaha, Ddrum? Or are they samples recorded
> from acoustic drums?

The website claims that they came from Roland, Yamaha, Boss, and several
other units.

~spot