Is fl studio demo songs copyrighted3/24/2024 I choose not to live in fear of imagined ominous omnipresent forces with endless resources to do evil Of course you can’t redistribute the included samples or presets, but everything made with the synth engine is free game including sound effects. I don’t have a link for this though, the story seems to be scrubbed from the internet wrong about Spectrasonics. Needless to say this ended in a lawsuit and that company going out of business. I remember a case about a sample library company selling an existing Kontakt string library, the only thing they did was open the reverb on Kontakt and sampling it. Selling a sample pack that uses samples from another sample pack is a whole 'nother story though. Source: A masterclass from a well known hardcore(the rave/gabber kind) producer who dealt with this problem. If you keep selling it after the original content owner made objections, you’re in trouble. The worst thing that can happen if you use the wrong sample in your own productions is having to forfeit all profit made with those and stop selling it. There are so many drum ‘n’ bass, jungle and hardcore records that use pieces of dialog from movies it’s impossible to keep count.Įdit: Blatant example(the title is actually from the dialog, guess which movie ): The other thing you can easily get away with(and many producers do), is using movie samples. But those were made to be used in music productions and of course will never end up in a sample pack if I made one. The only external samples I use are drum samples and loops. It also makes you a better sound designer in the long run. I didn’t call out that person because it’s not my job and I don’t know what stance Elektron takes in these matters.īut the risk alone is enough for me to never use sample packs and create every synth preset from scratch. I guess we can just wait and see what happens, because there was at least one Digitakt sample pack posted here that contained some Digitone factory presets. I remember seeing this quite often when looking into things. IIRC you can’t use anything from the FL Studio demo songs. Demo content and loops and samples in many cases are prohibited from being used.Yes it’s obvious for just taking a preset and re-selling it, but what if you again find a preset that makes a SFX that you then sample, put in your SFX library? If you sample things a lot, you might not even know where things came from, and a few years down the line run into a problem. You do not own the copyright to the presets, and thus any derivative work with those presets also doesn’t belong to you. Many VST developers (I’ve actually asked quite a few as I was researching this) prohibit you from sampling their presets if you intend to re-distribute the samples in a non-musical way.You can’t use a drum hit to make an effect, only musical use is allowed. This means that if you find a preset that sounds like a gunshot, you can’t use it for a gunshot sound. Omnisphere only allows musical use of all of their content, SFX usage is not permitted.Show me one midi pack or whatsoever company that states in their license agreements, yes buy our shit, but hey, u can’t use it for what it’s made for later on…so sorrrrry, but thanx for ur bux anyways…enjoy ur hobby… Otherwise you risk getting in huge trouble if anyone who bought your samples uses them in a significant way. Would this happen? Maybe unlikely, but if you’re at all considering to sell your samples/loops and not just make music it’s absolutely essential that you know you have the rights to do so. Now Elektron sees their competition using their own samples and sues them, who in turn point in your direction because of a indemnification in your contract with them. Otherwise it’s illegal and they can sue you.Įdit: Maybe I should add, this can also become a huge problem if you sell your samples to someone else under a license you’re not allowed to use, and they use it to create say a product that competes with Elektron. It doesn’t matter if it’s “commonly done” or if it’s “inconvenient”, the person/company providing you with content you base your derivative work off needs to give you an explicit permission to do so. You do not own the samples/presets/loops that come with a product, the creator owns them, and unless they give you explicit permission your usage of them is derivative work and breaches copyright. Copyright doesn’t distinguish “common sense”, derivative work is still derivative work. You’re saying it as “this would make sense”, but unless the license allows it you can’t sell derivative work, no matter how much you change it. But if ur into selling a sonic creation of whatsoever made with heavy loads of those sonic puzzles pieces u purchased as a product, u might be not the most innovative, but ur always good to go…
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