Originally Posted By: Cotts


Conflicting responses:

"Yep". Yep what, if I may ask...

Do I need "written permission from PG"? Or not?

"Copyright will not be an issue"... Or will it?

Thanks for the responses but I'm no further toward an answer at this point...

Dave


I should have said YEP and NOPE to your two questions....I can see how answering the first one by itself can be confusing.

You are allowed to use this software to create original songs and copyright them in your name. You don't have to include PG as a co-writer or share any credits with any of the track artists who recorded the real tracks. As long as you bought the software from PG and have the license that goes along with it, you are free to use the software for personal and commercial ventures. I have music being used commercially that was written using PG real tracks. I don't have to do anything other than to sign a statement with my publisher or music library which represents my music, that I alone, control all the rights to the music. Which, I do.

If however, you listen to one of the style demos and like it and decide to use it exactly like it is, that is a copyright infraction. Simply change a few aspects of the demo and rearrange the chords and it's all good. Besides that, I find that demo's often sound quite different when they are placed in your DAW and you simply change the key and tempo, and the demo's are often NOT in a usable song format. But... it's not a good idea to use the demo for anything other than learning privately.

Hope that clarifies it a bit better.

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