Hi, I’ve been making beats for over 4 years now using samples but i never used them in commercial way because of copyrights. Now I finally decided to buy a Yamaha keyboard to make and sell my own beats…but guess what? It says in the manual that the sounds are copyrighted and I can’t use them to make profit, WTF? It’s just piano and beat sounds and they put copyrights on it, same as me saying some word and putting a copyright on that and getting people to pay me to use that word, hey, lets put copyrights on sky, trees, horizon, sunshine, smiles and charge people for using those or referring to those things, this is complete bullsh***, do artists have to ask Yamaha for copyright clearance? That’s stupid, what should I do? Pay a lawyer big money so I can use some sounds from something I BOUGHT WITH MY HARD EARNED MONEY? Or should I go ahead and get my ?ss sued? Seriously, please tell me this is bulls***…
I doubt you are going to get sued. Do you think Yamaha actually listens to songs? Do you think they could even recognize their piano in a song? Trust me, you’re fine.