DonO,

I think what everyone here is saying is the style bossa nova or Samba or Rock is 'public domain' They may be trying to protect their styles from becoming 'common' which would make the styles not unique enough to be copyrighted, but I believe, they already are 'commonly' used names and styles that appear on every keyboard.

They did not create the bossa nova! Yamaha also stated that just changing a voice would not make the style different. How do you make a bossa nova different if not to change the voices etc? Still a bossa nova isn't it?

Interesting topic. I bought the keyboard cause of all the styles that were available for it. What a shame the company puts a cloud over their own products and causes hard feelings for their customers. Not very smart business.

Maybe they think they are fighting Napster ha-ha

-Linda