I want to thank Alec for the excellent post that is truly full of enlightmenent. I do understand where you are coming from Alec, and I certainly agree with what you are saying here. Maybe we are all inadvertantly suspect in the use of commercial files but I doubt very much if there is malice involved.
I know that when i receive a song that I can play in my instrument, and it triggers another song in my mind, I generally clear the sequencer and use whatever style is there to record my next new song. On occasion I buy a styles disk and record songs that are brought to mind by the style and I share this song with others as well as put it on a CD. I don't consider this to be a violation of a copyright although it certainly could be construed to be if the original song I received was. I don't recall ever seeing a copyright notice on a technics style or song using a technics style.
This is really a gray area and maybe we need to definately clarify it before we have another problem at this site. I would like to hear from Nigel just exactly what guidelines we should follow here and then ask each member to self police, to meet that requirement. We do not want to creat problems on this site. We don't want to censor either so each person needs to be responsible for themselves.
Thank you Alec for once again sharing your expertise with us. We do appreciate hearing from you.


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