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Re: The ethics of software emulations?




That is copyright violation.  In effect the band is performing the  
"source code" for the song.
There are some similaries between software and musical compositions  
but they are
fundamentally different.

Jeff


On Sep 27, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Travis Hartnett wrote:

> IP is weird though--imagine the legal position when a cover band  
> "emulates" a song someone else wrote.  Money must be paid, even if  
> it was "reverse engineered".