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Dr. Dre to pay $1.5 mil for "Illegal Sample"
jwlidtnet writes "According to MTV, Dr. Dre has lost a lawsuit filed over a presumably-uncleared sample on his last album (Dre still hopes to appeal). This is certainly not the first time that something like this has happened: in the mid-nineties, British band The Verve were forced to pay all royalties from their song Bittersweet Symphony (*and* alter song credits) after Allen Klein--who owns the rights to the 1960's Stones catalogue--discovered that the song used a sample from an orchestral recording of "The Last Time."
Thing is, though, that many groups believe that such lawsuits shouldn't occur except in the most blatant circumstances; among these groups, Musicians Against the Copyrighting of Samples and the group Negativland are perhaps the most outspoken. Should samples be protected by copyright, or should artists/musicians have the right to manipulate the old into the new?"
Remember kids, musicians don't steal. They SAMPLE!
Dr. Dre boots users from Napster.
Google doesn't index user sigs, so stop trying to "Google Bomb" with them.
If these rulings mean we don't have to hear "Bittersweet Symphony" ever again, you must admit that this is a benefit.
If its a BSD style licence, then there's no problem.
If its GPL, then Dre has just incurred the wrath of RMS...
"Dr Dre vs RMS"
is that the name of the lawsuit or the title of the track?
That man tried to kill mah Daddy
Upon reading that Dr. Dre was instructed to "pay $1.5 million for an 'illegal sample,'" I was beginning to anticipate something entirely different than a story regarding lawsuits related to intellectual property. :-)
Do you like German cars?
Personally, I think that anything that Vanilla Ice does should be illegal
I DO hope the Doctor is enjoying his own medicine.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
I think that when you are taking recorded audio directly from another source, and you are incorporating it into your own work, you should realize that you are stealing.
Like, how retarded ARE you to not figure that out?
It's not YOUR audio, it's someone else's.
DUH.
evil adrian
That's $150,000 per song times 6 million copies for a total of $900,000,000,000 ?
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
Millennium-old copyrights won't exist until 2923.
Now, if they had made up a bassline of their own, and someone found a song which played the same six notes, could they sue as well?
Ask Vanilla Ice and he will tell you that the answer is "Yes".
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
can this be the same Dr. Dre shutting down napster in Y2K over copywright viloations. Well, good dr, if your gonna use other people's music, PLEASE DON'T BITCH WHEN OTHERS USE YOURS