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profound impact on many aspects of society. Interbeing provides links
to emerging IP stories with a focus on law, technology and culture.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Ruling equates sampling with theft
Straight from Music City, USA, comes a court ruling so restrictive that even a 2 second sample from a reording is considered to be protected under copyright law. This is lunacy!
Play just about any song from the Top 40 pop or country charts, and you can find beats, melodies, chord progressions and rhythms that have been lifted from prior works. Just about every artist collaborates to some degree with those who have come before them. The public benefits by a liberal policy that allows for the maximum level of creative freedom. I don't believe that a case could be made that allowing sampling will hurt the original artist in any way. If anything, a new audience might be attracted to the original content from which the sample was captured.
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Straight from Music City, USA, comes a court ruling so restrictive that even a 2 second sample from a reording is considered to be protected under copyright law. This is lunacy!
Play just about any song from the Top 40 pop or country charts, and you can find beats, melodies, chord progressions and rhythms that have been lifted from prior works. Just about every artist collaborates to some degree with those who have come before them. The public benefits by a liberal policy that allows for the maximum level of creative freedom. I don't believe that a case could be made that allowing sampling will hurt the original artist in any way. If anything, a new audience might be attracted to the original content from which the sample was captured.
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