So much for styles-exchange. Your thoughts on the following sent to a PSR group:


Dear Yamaha Keyboard Users:

Yamaha Corporation appreciates your interest in the use of our
keyboards. We also value your active involvement in the creative use
of our products in this Yahoo! Group Site called Yamaha-PSR-Styles.

While we are pleased with your use of our products, we wish to
express concerns about the ongoing exchange of Style Files owned by
Yamaha. In this Group Site, some Style Files taken directly from
Yamaha keyboards have been posted without any modifications, or in
some cases, with only minimal modifications. Yamaha has spent
considerable time (over 20 years), money and effort in creating its
collection of Style Files, and those Style Files are Yamaha's
valuable assets. As the owner of rights in these Style Files, Yamaha
has the sole and exclusive right to reproduce and distribute them.
While Yamaha welcomes playing your music on our styles, it only
permits reproduction within the scope of personal use. Accordingly,
making Style Files available over the Internet to an indefinite
number of people is clearly outside of Yamaha's contemplation and
consent. Such activities on this Group Site constitute an
infringement of Yamaha's intellectual property rights.

Although certain Yamaha keyboards contain a "copy" feature
that enables users to copy Style Files, this feature has been
developed in order to allow users to save user-developed files and/or
to save original files for backup, both in connection with personal
use. Please note that the owner's manuals to Yamaha keyboard
products expressly state that "unauthorized copying of copyrighted
software for purposes other than the purchaser's personal use is
prohibited." Furthermore, each Style File is embedded with a
copyright notice, e.g., "Yamaha Corp. 2001."

Upon review of this message, please cease (i) copying any Styles
Files from Yamaha's keyboards unless it is for your personal use,
and (ii) posting and downloading any Style Files to and from this or
any other Internet sites, including the archive site named
Spectromagic.com. In addition, we ask that you delete on or before
February 28, 2002 any Style Files you have posted on this or any
other Internet sites, including Spectromagic.com.

Yamaha appreciates your loyalty to our products. Accordingly, we are
considering several methods of making more Style Files available for
use on your Yamaha keyboards such as by permitting you to download
certain popular Style Files for free from the Yamaha's official
website and/or making commercially available reasonably priced Style
Files that will upgrade the styles library on your current Yamaha
keyboards.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. We appreciate your
understanding and hope that you continue to enjoy our keyboards. We
will continue to do what we can to enrich your musical experience
with our products.

Very truly yours,

Yamaha Corporation

yamahastyles@yamahacorp.com



[This message has been edited by cam8neel (edited 01-28-2002).]