i originally wondered about this after reading a tutorial on making my own hydrogen drumkit
and the author said it would be illegal for me to publicly post a drumkit i had made using samples from my korg microkorg xl. is that true?
if that is true then would it also be illegal to post samples here on ccmixter?
i would be shocked and pissed if this were the case, but i seriously can’t imagine that this can be true.
anybody have any insight backed up by evidence/links supporting or disproving this?

No comment of the legal part of that question. But there are samples here at this site which are of keyboards / modules. For example, a rhodes keyboard or a hammond organ. :)

I don’t think there’s any way around reading the licensing documentation of the particular hardware, software or sample library in question.

That being said, there’s probably a difference between sampling an analog instrument and essentially plainly copying a digital sample from a device and posting that somewhere. There’s also a difference between posting an individual sample and posting a musical work which mixes a sample with other musical and/or audio elements. Specific language varies widely between sample libraries.

Unfortunately, legal details are tricky and vary widely case by case and we aren’t equipped nor mandated to give legal advice around here.

To me, this is one of the reasons why moving towards Freedom is so important.

That discussion has been in the forum of Freesound. I think that what Bram (FS admin) says in that thread can be applied to ccM.