Use of patches in commercial releases?

[marc]

Originally Posted by Binkz

Can a publicly released patch or sound derived thereof be used in a commercial music release? Reason I ask is that there are thousands of these patches, which are in essence creations, so do the original creators then have any implied rights to that sound? Also, what happens if I take a patch and change it radically...Is it then MY sound? Inquiring minds would like to know..

using patches in a commercial situation is what they are designed for. everything you find on the access website is "clean" in this regard. commercially re-releasing tweaked patches is a different story.

best, marc