Legal matters...
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Legal matters...
Since i've figured out how to make massive sized apps I finished something that I had on the back burner for whle and that was turning my Calculator into cruddy music player. Now I'm wondering if it's legal for me to distribute the two songs(jaded & american idiot) I converted on to ticalc. I think it's ok becuase theres so many copyrighted games (zelda, mario) that are recreated, but then again with the whole mess with napster I'd like to have some extra input on the legal matter, so if anyone has a clue please tell, theres no way I'm gonig back to jail.
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I went for the stupidest reason possible, you Know those little stickers you have to get for you car that says it's been inspected and has insurance. Well I hadn't taken care of that in two years, combined parking violations on my sisters part(we shared cars then), and a mean officer Rando, I got hauled way. 3 hours and $600 dollars later I was a free man. jail changed me...
Honestly i don't know if it was real jail, it was just a kinda small caged room behind jail doorman(?). Not what i expected, (I thought I was gonna be like the old pokey, with bars)
Honestly i don't know if it was real jail, it was just a kinda small caged room behind jail doorman(?). Not what i expected, (I thought I was gonna be like the old pokey, with bars)
It would be the same laws that apply to midi music:
A MIDI file is subject to at least two separate copyrights: The artist or the record company, and the sequencer or author who programmed the MIDI. MIDI authors do not necessarily have permission of either the record company or the artist to publish a song as a MIDI. This means that even if you find a sequencer on the Internet offering free MIDIs for which he/she has produced, it is still illegal for you to use them unless the sequencer has also licensed the copyrights from the original artist or recording company.
http://goinside.com/98/12/copyr.html
A MIDI file is subject to at least two separate copyrights: The artist or the record company, and the sequencer or author who programmed the MIDI. MIDI authors do not necessarily have permission of either the record company or the artist to publish a song as a MIDI. This means that even if you find a sequencer on the Internet offering free MIDIs for which he/she has produced, it is still illegal for you to use them unless the sequencer has also licensed the copyrights from the original artist or recording company.
http://goinside.com/98/12/copyr.html
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Really, how big an app does it make?
I need up to 90 pages or so, And so far I could only get Wappsign to to sign it for me, and I've personally on seen one other app near that size and it's still in beta.
Any way even if you do have it, I really want to program it myself and it needs to convert 8bit wav to 7bit or 4bit bin file.
I need up to 90 pages or so, And so far I could only get Wappsign to to sign it for me, and I've personally on seen one other app near that size and it's still in beta.
Any way even if you do have it, I really want to program it myself and it needs to convert 8bit wav to 7bit or 4bit bin file.