From: William <ros...@li...> - 2004-06-03 10:51:56
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sonar wrote: > William wrote: >> sonar wrote: >>> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> Are these sound fonts freely distributable and not copyrighted by >>> someone? I like to ask before I start using something from the net. >> >> These are all freely distributed sounfonts, some are by me :) > > Are they only freely distributed or are they freely redistributable? > > Ok, to make sure, I looked back on the web where I got the soundfonts > found in TelaN'os bank and I haven't seen one copyrighted. > I got most of them from small banks wich weren't copyrighted at all from > sf2midi.com. A soundfont file doesn't need to have a copyright notice to be copyrighted. The way copyright law works is that the things someone creates, e.g. soundfont files, are considered to be automatically copyrighted by the author, even without any explicit copyright notice, unless the author gives his/her work to the public domain. I'd like to know more about the copyright status of the soundfont files you used from sf2midi.com in your soundfont before I'd use your soundfont file. William |