How Deborah Mannis-Gardner helped De La Soul get their samples cleared
A lot of red tape and a little patience make all the difference.
Tag: copyright
A brief sample analysis of The Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony
Bittersweet indeed.
Mike Masnick flags racial bias in calls to change sampling copyright law
Mike was spitting and he did not miss.
Grey Tuesday, copyrights, and creative freedom
In February 2004, an event known as Grey Tuesday took place in protest against musical censorship. This is what happened and what we can learn from it.
How Music Sampling is Different from Stealing
Sampling is a creative tool for music composition. But is it really theft? Dr. E. Michael Harrington clarified things in a video for Berklee Online.
Point Blank’s Guide to Sampling: History, Development & Techniques
We have a special guest editorial from Point Blank Electronic Music School and it’s all about sampling.
Kraftwerk Lose German Court Battle Of Uncleared Sample
German music pioneers Kraftwerk have lost their battle over an uncleared sample. In what could be a landmark ruling at least in Germany, a sampling lawsuit went the way of the sampler rather than the sampled. The case was related to a ban on the sale of the song “Nur mir (Only to me)” by …
READ: Academic Papers On Sampling By Amanda Sewell
Thanks to musicologist Amanda Sewell, we have some academic papers on the subject of sampling. Sampling is synonymous with interactive technology. The pressing of pads on an MPC or Maschine, the splicing of audio on a DAW or even the manual pausing on cassette. But we don’t really see many books or papers on the …
SATURDAY MATINÉE: Michael Jackson Deposition (1993)
Here’s a 3-hour cut of Michael Jackson’s 1993 deposition held in Mexico, centred around supposed plagiarism of 3 songs.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: BBC Short Change - How To Download Music Legally
Back in 2005, music downloads were still in their infancy. Here’s a video from ’05 on how to download music legally thanks to BBC’s Short Change. I was 14 when I bought my first MP3 player. I saved up my pocket money for an entire month to buy a little 128MB unbranded player that came …