Comments on: Uncommon Approach: The future of sampling http://thefindmag.com/?p=2762 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:56:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mladen http://thefindmag.com/?p=2762&cpage=1#comment-651 Mladen Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:04:25 +0000 http://thefindmag.com/?p=2762#comment-651 Jeff - The 30 seconds you're alluding to applies to 'fair use', which is ONLY editorial review, classroom use and criticsm (as well as for certain documentary films), and does NOT apply to music made from samples as that would not classify as fair use. Any use of a sample of ANY length for a new song is a copyright violation. In fact, even within that 30 seconds (or max 10% of the song length) in fair use you're still open to legal issues depending on how the clip is used. Its not hard and fast. The issue you're citing about sampling being an integral part to hiphop makes no difference in a legal sense. Interesting opinion article though. Jeff – The 30 seconds you’re alluding to applies to ‘fair use’, which is ONLY editorial review, classroom use and criticsm (as well as for certain documentary films), and does NOT apply to music made from samples as that would not classify as fair use. Any use of a sample of ANY length for a new song is a copyright violation.

In fact, even within that 30 seconds (or max 10% of the song length) in fair use you’re still open to legal issues depending on how the clip is used. Its not hard and fast.

The issue you’re citing about sampling being an integral part to hiphop makes no difference in a legal sense.

Interesting opinion article though.

]]> By: Zyrus Campbell http://thefindmag.com/?p=2762&cpage=1#comment-646 Zyrus Campbell Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:12:05 +0000 http://thefindmag.com/?p=2762#comment-646 I was just talking to my cousin about this very subject about 2 hours ago. I'm definitely gonna send him this. Much of how my cousin feels is summed up in the first paragraph of this article which I'm now understanding to be out of date. Thanks again. Dope stuff! I was just talking to my cousin about this very subject about 2 hours ago. I’m definitely gonna send him this. Much of how my cousin feels is summed up in the first paragraph of this article which I’m now understanding to be out of date.

Thanks again. Dope stuff!

]]> By: Jeff http://thefindmag.com/?p=2762&cpage=1#comment-639 Jeff Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:53:27 +0000 http://thefindmag.com/?p=2762#comment-639 I took an intellectual property course last year and i learned a great deal about copyright regarding music. The thing with sampling is that usually, people that sample music take about 30 secs from the song and just loop that over while incorporating other beats or whatnot to it. That 30 secs is technically considered "free use" under all the copyright laws that are in existence and so anybody can take that 30 secs and do what they want with it. Also it's complicated when the original owner of the song wants to see someone for sampling their music, because in the genre of rap and some aspects of hip-hop, sampling is part of the genre-that's what makes rap and some aspects of hip-hop what it is. It's kind of difficult to sue a whole genre of music. I took an intellectual property course last year and i learned a great deal about copyright regarding music. The thing with sampling is that usually, people that sample music take about 30 secs from the song and just loop that over while incorporating other beats or whatnot to it. That 30 secs is technically considered “free use” under all the copyright laws that are in existence and so anybody can take that 30 secs and do what they want with it. Also it’s complicated when the original owner of the song wants to see someone for sampling their music, because in the genre of rap and some aspects of hip-hop, sampling is part of the genre-that’s what makes rap and some aspects of hip-hop what it is. It’s kind of difficult to sue a whole genre of music.

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