Creating Royalty Free Sounds

[Cameron Thomas]

I'm curious as to how exactly these companies like bangin' beats and modern beats go about creating the sounds they sell. The legality issues more specifically. They sell the libraries but say that you may not use them to create other sounds for sale or distribution. How are they protected against this and where did the sounds they have created originate from? The only thing that I can gather is that they recorded live drum and percussion sounds. Is there any licensing involved for the maker of the kits they used? They also could have used drum synths such as the the tr-808 or 909. Same thing is there licensing involved. Then they must just layer the raw sounds they have recorded to achieve the sounds of hip hop drums. Anyone have any insight on this subject?

 

[Delphine]

Not really any insight, just a guess.

You can't copyright a synth sound ( as far as I know ) so the TR drums you mention are just sounds. I think you can copyright a 'collection of sounds' that make up a musical/rhythmic idea. Like a drumloop.

Other stuff, like samples of artists, the artists in question would undoubtedly have licensed that material out for said companies, they then lose the rights to said sample/s.

Buying a sample cd, gives you the right to use that material in your own music, however, you cannot re-sell those samples as a series of samples.

That's my take on it, but I really don't know for sure.

 

[JerzHittaz]

^^^^^ Thats wut I would say too.

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