What's "In the style of" mean legally?
I understand what this means in reality: the music was usually performed by an in-house band, often with paid-for sheet music, rather than bought from the studio that made the original.
However, I spend a bit of time remaking CDG music "in the style of" various artists using either bought sheet music and creating MIDI files (I have a SB Live and the "Utopia" sound font which cost a few bucks, and you can hear the difference!) or finding MIDI files sequenced by others that they've made available. These are for personal use only.
I wanted to know what the armchair lawyers here think of the defenition. Do I have to put "in the style of" on my intro screens to keep the lawyers at bay?
Oh, and I usually put "not for resale" and MTU's website on the ending screen, because too many folks ask me how I made the thing. :-)
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