[sdiy] Legal issues of cloning

[John Ames]

Though Roland did back down on it after some protest. But yeah, you'd
have a lot less defensible position cloning a ROMpler or something.
But the only things on a pure synthesizer that should be protected
under copyright would be the firmware (clonable,) the manuals, and
maybe the art?

On 10/6/13, Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On 10/06/2013 09:57 PM, Rainer Buchty wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Richard Wentk wrote:
>>
>>> But most vintage patents have expired now, and the lack of legal
>>> action suggests the big names don't really care about chasing down
>>> imitators. If nothing else it would be bad PR.
>>
>> That didn't keep Roland from shooting down a software clone of the
>> MT-32 (MT-32 Emulation Project) on the grounds of ROM copyrights
>> (IIRC, the samples).
> Which is copyright issue, and a much longer time-out on that. Too long.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
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