[MW1]

Hi John,

Thank you for your response.

That’s the thing though. I have read old posts on this forum that comes up and seems pretty extensive. I have read the EULA. I don’t think either of them answer that question clearly (unless I am missing parts of the EULA), nor have any responses I have seen.

There is the response from yourself in 2024 (on this Topic: Copyright question about use of EZDrummer | Toontrack):

“Hi,

to reiterate:
You are free to use any Toontrack sound and/or MIDI in a musical context (most of the time called a “song”) you create.
I.e. it doesn’t matter how much of a Toontrack MIDI file or how many MIDI files you use to construct a “song”.
It does not matter which sounds you use when you create your “music”.
It does not matter if you give your created work/song/piece away or charge an enormous amount of money for it.
All of the above, you can do.

What you cannot do, is to sell (or give) the Toontrack MIDI or sounds intended for use in a musical context in its raw form.
I.e. you cannot take one, many or parts of a Toontrack MIDI file and sell or give away.
You cannot sample a sound from a Toontrack library, e.g. a Snare or a piano and sell or give away on its own.

You can and should make as much music as you possibly want with your Toontrack MIDI and sound libraries.

BR,
John”

That sounds great. All good.

But the EULA saying we have the rights to do so, doesn’t preclude distributors like Distrokid to ask very specific questions like these two mandatory questions that you must say yes to in order to monetize:

• I created ALL the sounds myself
• My single does not contain beats, loops, sound effects, or other audio that were downloaded from sample libraries or other public sources (Garage Band, Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, etc).

Are you saying that we are allowed to legally say “yes” to these questions?

This seems like a situation where although Toontrack says we have the rights, Distrokid (to name one) doesn’t seem to care.

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