Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Well, let's be clear here ... I said it was a *worst case" scenario. 
What would call it when an enterprise sells a product, and then 
forbids its customers to use it in a customary manner, threatening 
legal action absent compliance?

Among other things, the Command Stations are all synthesizers ... 
capable of producing all kinds of different sounds. That's what they 
are MADE for. There are all manner of companies creating sampled 
sounds from various synthesizers and then SELLING the resulting 
material.

Emu happens to be one of those companies. My Emu ROMs containing 
samples from Moogs, Arps, Oberheims, Mellotrons, Prophet 5s, 
Fairlights, etc. ... I doubt seriously that Emu has any "permission" 
from the ... ahem ... "copyright holders" of that "intellectual 
property".

But they will - so it seems - turn right around and forbid you or I 
to do the same. Did you sign any kind of restrictive license with 
Emu? I sure didn't. Have you been able to find any copyright notice 
on Emu's sounds in any of the material shipped with your Command 
Station or ROMs? I sure didn't.

But here in this very forum a representative of Emu is making threats 
against anyone who would engage in the precise same business 
practices that Emu itself does ... namely sampling synthesizer sounds 
and selling the resulting material. So, it's "fine" when they do it, 
but "criminal" when you or I do?

Give me a freakin' break.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Sharma" <noision1@h...> wrote:
> 
> RICO? LOL!! What jailhouse lawyer did you hear that from?