> Question: What are the legal rules guarding the practice of > sampling? Is it at all based on the length of the sample used? I'm just > curious, for I have > a good idea for my first techno track (though its realization will > undoubtedly take place somewhere far in the future), and the piece's > essential characteristic is a certain soundbite from a certain > celebrity.
These days you can get sued for sampling just about anything. Music is totally copyright, no matter how much you take. James Brown has a staff scouring for samples of his work, and he's made much more from being sampled than he did from his own releases (or so I hear). Speech is less likely to get you in trouble but not necessarily free to sample. Certain recordings are copyright. Anything on TV, film, CD, basically anything that has been published. I remember ORB got in trouble for using the interview in "Little Fluffy Clouds".....some country singer I think. There is a pretty in depth article in the archives of Sound on Sound magazine http://www.sospubs.co.uk you need to do a search as there's no exact url within the site. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
