Hi Teo.
I like both the straightly rendered stuff and the pieces you have "jazzed up." I think they both have their appropriate place in the archive. If one does happen to have the ability to mess around with midi, these are all great source tracks. Who knows where this work might show up either as is, or transformed?
As you know, I'm with you on the notion that midi which can be written in real time by playing into a sequencer is a performance medium and that one ought to be able to claim some rights to midi files. Whether this is impossible by design has yet to be proven. I know when I download them I do get the authoring information if I go to "get info." Good show. Whoever gets these should see there is a record of who created them.
Even without that, these files you have shared with us certainly have the author's signature on them simply because the style is unique and the playing is recognizable to anyone who knows this artist's work. It's better, obviously, that you were able to write in the credits.
I wouldn't use any of it without citing my source. You would hope anyone else will feel the same way. If not, it would be sort of like art theft - a fanciful idea that is hard to get away with - because of the issue of uniqueness. Some art theives do get away with passing stolen work to people without scruples who pay them for it. In the case of paintings, generally such a collector would have to hide what they have stolen to get away with keeping it. Who would steal music and then hide it? A deaf person?
There's a catch. I think I like it.
Again - thanks for sharing it. You have picked some wonderful little pieces!
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