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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: DX7 PATCHES COPYRIGHTED?
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 15:07:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 15:07:11 1985
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>    I was trying out the Ensoniq Mirage at a music store, and as you
> probably know, the Mirage is a sampling machine. I was kind of surprised
> to punch up some regular synth sounds. I asked the sales guy, and he
> goes, "that's lifted right off a DX7!"
>    I was a little concerned about the legality of that, and was told that
> there's no copyrights on sounds - which sounds logical. 
> 
Well sampling the output noise of a DX7 is a different subject than what
we were discussing.  What we were discussing was the patch roms for the DX-7.
The ones Yamaha gives out bear no copyright notice, nor is there any indication
on the machine that things are copyright, so I guess it's fair game there.

-Ron