Hi,
I recently bought an Octatrack MK2. It came with samples on the Demo CF disk, and possibly also on the Octatrack itself (I’m not 100% sure).
Are the samples free to use for ie. making a track and then releasing it commercially, without attributing or paying anyone?
I could not find the license text for this, and I want to only build on samples that I’ve either made myself, are CC0 licensed or have a license that allows almost anything except using the samples for selling them as a rebranded samplepack (which is a very understandable exception).
Thanks!
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Hi, those are Loopmasters samples; here’s the licensing info from their webpage:
You may use the sounds in combination with other sounds within your musical compositions. You may release such compositions commercially without payment of any further fees or royalties for such usage. For example, if you are the original purchaser of a sample CD, and you used sounds from it to create the soundtrack of a television commercial, simply by combining a synth loop sample with a guitar loop, and the TV advert was broadcast hundreds of times, you would keep all the royalties that the advert earns you, because you already purchased a private license to use the sounds commercially.
You cannot use the sounds in isolation (i.e. when not within musical compositions) as part of a commercially released project - for instance you cannot use the sounds to make another sample CD, or for sound effects on a website or multimedia production - unless as part of a composition with other sounds.
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I feel more inspired to make music with those samples now that I got a clarification. Thanks!
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