 Hey, I'm Anfa. You may remember that some time ago I've made a video about virtual playing orchestra, which is a set of sampled orchestral instruments created from samples gathered from different places and released under an open license. And in that video I said that I highly don't recommend using it. I used more harsh language than that. Thank you for your negligence and wishful thinking that led us to this situation. And honestly, I apologize to the creator of VPO because I think I was too harsh. I argued that the samples that the instrument library used come from different sources and are licensed under different licenses. Some of them require attribution like CC by or require any derivative work to be licensed under the same license like CC by SA, so save agreement or share alike. And also another license, sampling plus, which was it was retired by Creative Commons some time ago. So I said that from what I could gather and from my conversations with different people whose opinions I regard and who I think know more about copyright than I do, the best I could figure out is that if you make music with virtual private network. With virtual playing orchestra you have to license your music accordingly to what instruments you used, what samples they used. Now the author of virtual playing orchestra has done a tremendous job documenting what samples are taken from what places under what license they were released and in which instruments they are used. So it would be possible to track down what exact samples under what licenses you used in your music. It would still be a lot of work. So I said that's impractical and unless you are open to violating people's copyright or making life super hard for yourself you should stay away from virtual playing orchestra. Long time after I made that video a person from the community arrived and made an argument that my argument is bad and that virtual playing orchestra is in the right and the author's statement that you can use the sampled instrument library to make music and you don't need to credit anyone is correct and that's because making music from samples is a transformative process. How I understand it is samples fulfill a specific role. You don't listen to samples and go that's groovy. I mean unless there are loops but you're not going to be doing that for long because the sample is not going to be a full piece of music. The sample is just a building block. It's a component. It's not usable as a piece of music on its own. So a sample is one kind of resource and music is a different kind of work. So if you take the samples and you turn them into music that's transformation. So crossing a barrier between medium types and he argued that this like negates the license of the samples are no longer need to carry on this attribution no longer have to abide by the license of the samples because your work is transformative. If it was not transformative so you were to take the samples and make a different sample or take the library and make a different library than the licensing applies. I'm going to link the videos that that person have recorded explaining their argument in length and I'm really thankful for that. I took my video down because I'm no longer confident that I am 100% correct in my conclusion and I don't want to be you know saying things like don't use this or that person is leading you towards violating people's copyright if I'm 100% sure and also I want to apologize for doing that because I wasn't 100% sure but I might have been wrong and I probably should never be so confident because I'm just a human and humans can always be wrong. So I'm sorry and I mainly target this at the author of the virtual playing orchestra. I'm sorry I have to leave it open there is no answer to this question. Another person from my community there was a huge discussion in my community after this comment appeared and after that person made these videos explaining their point about transformative work and the licensing not like going over to the different kind of medium but we couldn't reach a consensus. There are very convincing arguments on both sides and nobody can really prove that one is the only way to interpret the licensing and the law and not all the kind of stuff. One person from the community reached out to Creative Commons I think they emailed them or something and got a reply that stated something along the lines of we don't know and we don't have resources to find out so it's not great. I was hoping for something better because the people who made Creative Commons licenses are like the authority in my mind on this stuff if they don't know then I have no idea. So I'm sorry but I have to leave it at that. I don't know. So it's your call you either believe that making music from samples is transformative work and that then go and use virtual playing orchestra instruments in your music and don't attribute anyone and don't like care about what license you release your music under or believe that it doesn't and don't use it and that's on you. I can't provide an answer and that's all yeah I wish I had a better answer. I had a better conclusion but I just I gave it some time. I thought I maybe I'll gather some more information but no I just have to leave it at that. So I took my video down I will link it it's unlisted I will link it below this video so you can watch it for like historical purposes. I'm not erasing it and I no longer stand by what I said there because I learned that I may be wrong I may be right. I don't know I was swayed both sides like many times over during this whole debacle. What I can do is link you again to a blog post or a website or an article or a list by Nils who has combined a list of instruments that are licensed under Creative Commons 0 which is equivalence to public domain which is 100% sure to be safe to use like that's the only license I have no qualms about if something's licensed under CT0 you can take it you can do whatever with it you can even sell it you can put it on a CD and sell it and nobody can do anything about it of course it could be a shit move but well that's on you. Ah wait one more thing if you want to talk to people who are making audio on Linux with open-source software go check my community chat at chat.anfa.xyz and also huge thanks to everyone who is supporting my work if you dear viewer would like to join these awesome people and help me make videos like this one you can go over to patreon.com.anfa or liberapay.com.anfa and give me a buck every month or two it's up to you that's all now go and make some music