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GUS Musician's Digest       Tue, 12 Apr 94 15:07 PST     Volume 6: Issue  12  

Today's Topics:
                Cakewalk v2.01 now patch caches fine!
                         Deritive MIDI Files
                     GUS Musician's Digest V6 #11

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 9:24:24 MDT
From: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com
Subject: Cakewalk v2.01 now patch caches fine!

  I'd like to add my voice to what has already been said:  Twelve Tone
  sent me the Cakewalk v2.01 maintenance release without my so much as
  making a peep.  Great service!

  And what's even better is that the program installed without a hitch,
  and now patch caching with the GUS works fine!  (Curiously enough,
  there is still a message in the release notes which warns that a patch
  caching error message may still appear, but that the sound card
  probably has room to load the patches.)

  Happy GUS'ing everyone, especially now that Cakewalk patch caches
  correctly!

--

  Stuart Yoshida

Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com
   Voice: (303) 229-2324

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 09:03 -0400
From: WADLEIGH@PROCESS.COM
Subject: Re: Deritive MIDI Files

A MIDI file that contains a "cover" of a copyrighted work can be 
considered a deritive work, a sound recording, or a performance.  In all 
three cases, the author is due royalties and failing to pay them is 
illegal.  CompuServe could meet the standards of legal royalties if they 
paid the original author the "involuntary license" fee every time someone 
downloaded the file (which is less than 6 cents).

As usual, the problem is that Compuserve is making money off of the work 
of the artist and giving the artist nothing.  Even if other users posted 
the MIDI files, CompuServe is charging fees for access.

Hal

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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 17:19:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rath <cllym@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V6 #11

RE: MIDI files and the copyright laws.

So, Compuserve is getting sued, eh?

I thought that the MIDI files could be distributed as long as you weren't 
making any money off of them.. I mean, it's not like we stole into the 
musician's studio and copied their MIDI files off their workstations or 
anything..

BTW, i found quite a few MIDI's on this site:

ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu

under the pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS area..

Rath

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 12:48:57 +0200
From: vrossum@phys.uva.nl (Mark van Rossum)

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 12:48:57 +0200
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