What they fail to always recognize is that it's all well and good you
should pay for all the samples, but that the degree of paperwork,
research, combined with the high chance that you'll get turned down
anyway make it an extremely frustrating prospect. We're actually one of
those crazy labels that clears samples, and believe me it's not easy.
If the process was simpler, ie. say there was a central payment point
you could pay to clear any sample with no arguments/denials and it was
as easy as paying a per unit pressed rate for anything you wanted to
use I think the big wigs would be surprised at how honest people would
be about paying and how much money that would generate. If the artist
flat out didn't want to be sampled then they could refuse to have their
work as part of the data-base. So at least you knew from the get go if
you could use it, and it allows for some protection for the original
composer. I know that's overly simplified and there would be loads of
other stuff to consider, but it's a million dollar idea if people would
get off their ass and stop being so precious about copyright. Make the
process simple, and people will pay. Most people don't want to be
thieving, it's just that no one has presented them with a legit option.
Jeff
On 8-Sep-04, at 3:10 PM, Kent Williams wrote:
quoted 20 lines > http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=43259
>
> What a bunch of killjoys they are in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
>
> This is a call to arms: Everyone needs to make a track made ENTIRELY
> of uncleared samples. The new ruling basically says that samples of
> ANY length need to be licensed. So you could, for example, take a
> recording, and make notes out of single cycle samples, and it would be
> illegal.
>
> If you feel, as I do, that creative sampling is a integral part of the
> art of modern music making, this is, in effect, a gag order on a large
> number of artists who are not simply biting the work of others.
>
> When sampling is outlawed, only outlaws will be sampling.
>
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