[DECtalk] Vocal Writer

[tomi]

Hey,

Well that is one point.  But then, like Flint is selling his songs online for 10 dollars.  He is making money off of someones work! That's when I think you should pay a couple buks to the company who sold the original songs.

I'm not saying here that Flint should go in jail, I'm saying my opinion.  If I ever get into making songs, I will never everever ever ever ever sell them on cds.  If I do author cds, I will author them for free.  Everyone should have the write to a cd with 50 songs or more, regardless if their African American, Hungarian, German, Chinees, etc.

Regards: Tomi



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Dectalk at aol.com
>To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:40:19 EST
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Vocal Writer


>I have an argument on that.  First of all, anyone  can sing in the shower
>without paying royalties.  Well, people who can't  talk have Dectalk in their
>communication device, so what if they wanted to sing  in the shower?

>Now, when I buy sheet music I'm converting it into an  alternative format
>which is legal.  Alternative formats for the disabled  are exampt from paying
>royalties which is why the library for the blind can put  books and newspapers on
>tape, CD, oe the talking book  radio.

>A Dectalk file can not be converted back into sheet  music, therefore I'm not
>copying anything.

>Now, to record an album, yes, you do need to pay  royalties.  But to just
>sing a Scout song, camp song, sing Happy Birthday  to a friend, or whatever, I
>will fight to the death before I pay  royalties.

>If a 5 year old starts singing "THE WHEELS ON THE BUS"  no one has to pay
>royalties.  So setting up a communication device so a  disabled 5 year old can
>sing the same song is simply equal access.  Dectalk  is nothing more than an
>external voice for many people.  It's no different  than walking with a
>wheelchair, seeing with a seeing eye dog, or anything  else.


>SNOOPI



>In a message dated 3/4/2006 9:57:19 A.M.  Pacific Standard Time,
>geczy at earthlink.net writes:

>Hey,

>Flint Million's site ( www .themillionweb.com) had some  that were not on the
>list.

>Third questions:

>Here's what I think  about all this dectalk and singing business: Since these
>songs are copywrited,  you would need permition from the authors to sell
>them.  I think as long  as the songs are free and not sold for 30 dollars per 50
>song, you would be ok  with Plannetmirror and all that crap.  Yes, you still
>made it, but you  did not rewrite the song's text from scratch.  If you do sell
>it for  instance, you would need to ask the writers if you can and if they say
>so,  dedicate 5 percent of your sails to the writers.  So I don't think
>Jayson  could get in trouble with that stupid company.  I mean, cmon, their site
>is full of spam!

>Anyways, try flint's site, it's under speech synthesis  songs.  Hth

>Tomi

>)

>> ----- Original Message  -----
>>From: "Matthew Horspool" <drjaws at blueyonder.co.uk
>>To:  "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>Date: Sat, 4 Mar  2006 10:22:48 -0000
>>Subject: [DECtalk] Vocal  Writer

>>Hello,

>>Can I first congratulate the person who  created the more recent Vocal
>>Writer songs?  They're  wonderful!  Could that person please contact  me
>>off-list?

>>Secondly, is there a website where I can  download Vocal Writer demo
>>songs other than those on the  archive?

>>Thirdly, and perhaps more seriously, there are a few songs  in the
>>/vocalwriter directory on the archive that might prevent  the
>>planetmirror mirror if they found out.  I'm wondering if it's  worth
>>moving those to a separate archive which is not  mirrored?

>>---

>>Matthew F.   Horspool

>>E-mail:
>>matthew at thehorspools.com

>>Microsoft  .net  Messenger:
>>drjaws at blueyonder.co.uk

>>Skype:
>>matthewhorspool

>>Web:
>>www.thehorspools.com

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