[sdiy] Legal issues of cloning

[Tom Wiltshire]

Also the PCB layouts. They're an image, and that's copyrightable. Or is that what you meant by "art"?

On 6 Oct 2013, at 21:32, John Ames <commodorejohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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