"My good friend Paul Romero is back at the helm Composing and Conducting again. We have Opera.....Yes, It is back and better than ever my friends. Karin is back (From HOMM2) and we also used Dean from the NYC Opera. We also have a full Women's Choir and tons of string players. Justin only 17yrs old layed down an amazing flute track on The "Academy" Town."
从这段来看，Paul Romero只是编曲团队中的一个成员，不可能有那段曲子的版权
For the Adventure themes we went for a total different approach. The entire adventure score is Celtic.
如果我理解得不错，Adventure themes是指所有的‘旅途主题’配乐，当然包括这首争议中的Water 这些音乐是凯尔特元的，跟后来的声明也相符合：
Actually the guys that performed those tracks own the samples, so they are free to license them to everyone...Just glad I got to use them first! They are a talented celtic group..Our arrangement is different though.
有此可见这段曲子的原版权属于某不知名的爱尔兰乐团，先授权给了Rob King和他的英雄无敌配乐小组，之后，有可能也授权给了12国，甚至某些国内乐人。但这只是猜测。至于是否真的授权了，要找到那个乐团才能求证。
