COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Copyright of the Hollow Sun website extends to the design, concept, original artwork and the content of all text which may not be used, copied or used or published verbatim in whole or in part on paper or on a website or on any electronic media such as audio CD or CD-ROM, DVD, etc., without the prior permission of Hollow Sun. Neither can the text be used verbatim in whole or as part of a script for broadcast or distribution in or as part of any video, televisual, audio or multi-media format without prior permission from Hollow Sun. Educational establishments are excluded from this stipulation providing no commercial gain is made from the use of the copyrighted information and material available at Hollow Sun.

Hollow Sun does not (and cannot) lay claim to or hold any copyright on the original source of many of the sounds available for download on the website. However, Hollow Sun's copyright does extend to the work that may have been required to make them suitable for use in any kind of hardware or software sample playback device.

Specifically, this includes the cost/time required to buy/hire/borrow/transport the instruments and then physically record them. It also extends to any and/or all sample editing processes such as trimming, looping (where appropriate), tuning, fades, normalisation, noise reduction and other sample editing and optimisation techniques that have been applied to the samples to make them suitable for use in any musical and/or other applications. It also extends to and includes any work done on the source instrument to actually create the resulting samples.

Hollow Sun's copyright also extends to include any specific programming processes and techniques used. Specifically, this includes keyboard/drum pad mapping, filter, filter envelope, amplitude envelope, LFO and any other settings that have been chosen to best represent the sounds/instruments. Copyright of these settings (or similar) extends to the use of the sounds in other sampler formats.

Hollow Sun is not knowingly aware of any infringement of any copyright of the sounds/samples that are available on the website. Most of the sounds/samples come from products that ceased production many years ago (and in many cases, the actual manufacturer no longer exists) and in most cases, any 'copyright' will have expired.

Other sounds (in particular, synth sounds) have been custom programmed or otherwise manipulated and/or prepared at Hollow Sun.

In the (rare) occasion that sounds from a currently available product are used on the site, these have usually been 'tweaked' as appropriate for the sampling process - whatever, they are presented in the spirit of 'free publicity' for the product and sincerely hope that the the few 'tasters' provided at Hollow Sun may encourage visitors to investigate (and maybe buy) the product in question.

Hollow Sun claims no copyright over any samples/programs/sounds that are generously and altruistically 'donated' for use/download on the website but given that these samples/programs/sounds are provided freely by the donors, it is assumed that the donor understands that any claims to copyright of such donated samples/programs/sounds are forfeited. The same applies to any other data/materials that may be supplied/donated (such as photographs, images, product details and description, etc.).

Other sounds that may have been sourced from the public domain are widely available elsewhere - in this case, acknowledgement of the source is stated clearly wherever possible and it should be noted that any such samples have normally required extensive work to make them to make them acceptable and usable in any musical and/or other applications.

Hollow Sun retains the right to commercially exploit donated sounds in any way that is deemed appropriate to maintain the upkeep of the site.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

Most, if not all of the product images used on this site are in widespread use on many other websites and the original copyright for them is largely unknown. Credit and acknowledgement is given wherever possible. However, most, if not all of the product images at Hollow Sun have been extensively manipulated in one way or another with various techniques to make them suitable and appropriate for the site's overall design and layout. Their usage here is not considered an infringement of copyright and any product images used at Hollow Sun are still considered to be the property of their original source (person, company or website) and they are used on the Hollow Sun website in accordance with copyright laws that allow the "fair use" of a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, comment, teaching, scholarship or research, etc..

Company, trade and brand names used on the Hollow Sun website are recognised and acknowledged to be the property of their respective owners. Any use of them on this website is done with due respect to their owners and in no way is intended to exploit their brand image or the copyright holder's reputation. Neither is there any intention to use any copyrighted company, trade and brand names to bring disrepute their respective owners. On the contrary, in fact.