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This article might be a good read on that matter: http://www.muzique.com/clones.htm
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@Frankbeat Hi, thanks this is an interesting article.
Sorry for my friend's cut and dry approach. I don't mean to be rude.
See, I'm hoping to do something similar myself one day. That is the reason why I'm researching it.
I don't think the problem is related to schematics or circuitry at all. After all, what we are doing in software is well, ones and zeros and it's not analog. So as far as I am concern they are totally different things.
I think the weakness is in the design of the user interface. I can easily see a company claiming they own the design of the user interface, as some elements are indeed artistic in nature and the general composition of those elements can also be viewed as IP and as such can be copyright protected.
Something else to consider is that there is probably a statute of limitations for such copyright, you might be able to copy an 808 as its design is over 40 years old. But something more recent can be trickier.
Here is a different article I found on the subject.
https://www.tasanet.com/Knowledge-Center/Articles/ArtMID/477/ArticleID/913419/How-to-Protect-Your-User-Interface-Intellectual-PropertyThanks for your response.
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@RastaChess You don’t need to be sorry… You ( and your buddy) were not offensive. It’s an interesting topic!
I don‘t think we have to distinguish between analog or digital processing. Yes, an 808 schematic is comparably old but that doesn’t mean, it’s unrelated to the issue we discuss. For a computational process, the same principle might apply: is the functionality you‘re about to copy really one that can be perceived special? For example: Is a instrument mixing a decaying sine tone with a single pulse to form something like a bass drum? Cool feature then, maybe. But how unique do you think this would be to a person who is deciding on granting patents for quite some years? I‘m only guessing though.
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Well, I have to add as a side note: I‘m not the best person to have a valuable debate about these concerns because I don’t plan to sell plug-ins ever. My excitement ends at the point I can make my own plug-ins. I could blatantly replicate anything just the way I like (of course, limited by my abilities)
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