Roland however is not an American Company and the D50 was first released in Japan not the United States. Japan has been a member of the Berne Convention since 1899. Unlike in America anything manufactured and sold in Japan by a Japanese company didn't need a mandatory Copyright notice to maintain CopyrightsEdit: Added some background info at the end, so please read in full before replying to individual things, as I learnt some stuff further down, but left the post intact for context. Interesting little rathole, thanks!I think you misunderstood me perhaps, or I you. What i meant was that when you make something, you automatically own the copyright to it - you don't need any process to assert copyright ownership - however, having the ability to *prove* copyright ownership later is useful, so there are some processes to help in that regard - this might be what you refer to shortly as "notification" I guess, which is a different thing. But there is no procedure to be undertaken in order to have copyright of the work you create - it's implicit in it's creation. That was what I meant.Except for the fact they were sold commercially as part a product that did not contain any copyright noticeI'm not a lawyer and so can't argue from a position of authorityUntil the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, such notification was mandatory if you ever tried to legally enforce copyright under US Law
Making them available to the general public pre 1988 without notice put them into the public domain, but that doesn't sound right to me. After all, most sampled based instruments don't come with a copyright notice of the included sound content, but that doesn't mean the manufacturer absolves all ownership of those sound recordings. Take for instance the Roland D50 (1987), which includes Roland-owned copyright sound recordings that Roland can, and do, pursue abuses of.
, but that doesn't sound right to me. After all, most sampled based instruments don't come with a copyright notice of the included sound content, but that doesn't mean the manufacturer absolves all ownership of those sound recordings. Take for instance the Roland D50 (1987), which includes Roland-owned copyright sound recordings that Roland can, and do, pursue abuses of. The Berne Convention, was an international assembly held in 1886 in the Swiss city of Bern by ten European countries, since then other countries around the world have agreed to be party to that agreement
The entire purpose of the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, was to bring US Copyright law into agreement with those of other countries.
So anything created and manufactured by American companies after 1988 doesn't need a copyright notice including those samples libraries and instruments you talked about
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