Dany wrote:Kevin, your thoughts are indeed very interesting. But I guess it will be quite hard to find about 13 people owning both instruments, who are willing to do the hard work.
It's also an interesting legal question. If KORG could legaly claim the copyright on the idea for each of those new MOD-7/STR-1 sounds, your theoretical procedure would probably violate those copyrights.
Furthermore, Kronos users could just ignore any statement, that the download was just for OASYS owners and download the sounds anyway, which would produce a potential financial loss for KORG, probably allowing them to legaly claim compensation for loss...I am just guessing and the legal opinion of an expert in this field of law would be very interesting...
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For the record - I just feel need to point out that the above quoted post was posted "tongue and cheek" to promote debate only – and not a serious suggestion that we should illegally post copyrighted material. I would never advocate illegally posting anyone else’s sounds - irrespective of the cries of grievance about lack of OASYS updates, Korg still need to make a living, and illegal downloading is abhorrent to me (I'm speaking from tough learnt experience where my first popular science book released a few years ago "Mars, A Cosmic Stepping Stone" sold a few thousand copies worldwide but has been downloaded illegally hundreds of thoursands of times). So I understand the devastation that illegal downloading causes to creative careers and livelihoods; and would never advocate illegally copying and posting Korg sounds.
I just felt I needed to make that clear because it is not at all clear from my post that I was trying to be tongue and cheek about it to stir debate only.
cheers,
Kevin.