Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!edson!news From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: MidiSynth Message-ID: <1991May27.062122.15422@ee.ualberta.ca> Date: 27 May 91 06:21:22 GMT References: <9031@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <11596@hub.ucsb.edu> <16273@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: news@ee.ualberta.ca Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering Lines: 28 In article <16273@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article <11596@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) writes: >>BTW, there are hundreds of songs for SLab available, ... > >All of this reminds me -- I have never gotten any really satisfactory >answer to the obvious question: > Why do the administrators of such on-line services permit the > posting of copyright images and songs? I'm fairly sure that > few if any of them were copied with the permission of their > copyright holders. Probably because they are not the original song exactly. Since I don't have SynthLAB, the only songs I've heard have been soundSmith ones. And none of the SS songs that are copied (ie Rush, Samantha fox) sound really good (some sound pretty good). Plus they don't have words, but I think it is basically because they are such poor reproductions. >A related question is: > How have these services managed to avoid prosecution for so long? The lawyers don't know yet? Hopefully it will stay that way as long as the quality of these songs is as low as it is. When we begin to approach the sound of the original recording then maybe some royalties are due. -- Jerry Penner Edmonton, Alberta, Canada jpenne@bode.ee.ualberta.ca or alberta!bode!jpenne