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minime123 wrote:did you save their presets? that would have been a good idea....

If he did they would have emailed him with "do it and ill sue your a*s! "

Honestly, I didn't. They couldn't have done anything anyway. They sold the synth with those sounds still in it. If they were that concerned they would've wiped it. I couldn't have sold them as thompson twins sounds though...

i wasnt suggesting it so he could sell the sounds. i just thought it would be nice to save them and possibly give them to a few TT fans who'd appreciate them. though i'd probably try to get permission first...

RobotHeroes wrote:

minime123 wrote:did you save their presets? that would have been a good idea....

If he did they would have emailed him with "do it and ill sue your a*s! "

I don't see how they could sue anyway. Say I never heard their songs before, stumbled across a similar patch and used it in my song. It's not a sample, it's a sound from my own synth used in my own original song. No case.

It's really a pity that the sounds are gone, they're pretty good! I suppose that's really down to the excellent arranging.

If you sold them as Thompson Twins sounds, they might sue for "passing off" if the band is still a going concern. You're right, a sound recording is copyrightable, and clearly defined as such. Otherwise, you'd be talking intellectual property, and a judge would have to decide if a synth patch constitutes an "original creative work". But they probably wouldn't bother suing, how many OB owners are out there, and what percentage of them would want the sounds?

A sound recording is copyrightable, but if I use a sound I came across on my own synth I couldn't be sued. It's not a part of the sound recording, it's my own creation. If that's a case than if you're a drummer you could sue anyone who uses the same kind of cymbal...

Oh I wasn't serious about getting sued. It was in reference to some comment on minime's youtube.

We stopped posting full front panel videos since someone copied one of our patches.

In some other video someone said they were going to steal his patches and he wrote the part in quotes about suing.

hfinn wrote:A sound recording is copyrightable, but if I use a sound I came across on my own synth I couldn't be sued.

If that synth is a ROMpler you possibly could be sued. Roland have successfully had people "Cease and desist" selling samples from their V Drum, which despite the marketing actually uses samples. I don't think it went to court, so it's still a grey area.

What I meant with the OB sounds is that one might be in trouble for using the Thompson Twins' name. That's called passing off, but they would have to be a registered company with a trade mark.

All conjecture of course! But interesting

hfinn, you should be sued for NOT keeping them. Extraordinary sounds but the production is the key.

Micke wrote:
For the '84 live tour the band was augmented with two other keyboardists; Carrie Both on Yamaha DX-7 and Bailey's trusty OB-Xa (hooked up to a DSX sequencer) and Roger O'Donnel on Prophet 600 and T8. A second T8 was handled by Joe Leeway and Bailey had a Yamaha CP-70B electric grand and the Pro One.

a prophet 600 which, i believe, i know own. yay!

(i apologize if others find this information useless...i will now make several useful posts as penance.)

code green wrote: a prophet 600 which, i believe, i know own. yay!

Not useless, as long as you KEPT THE SOUNDS, and make them all available to us as full multisamples in Kontakt format