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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?"
Taking a recorded track and using it in your own recording in a studio is called sampling. I call it theft. Hiring musicians to play a modification of a song you have made on your own is arranging and IS protected. I.E. it becomes YOUR intillectual property, assuming you cite your sources as creating the original that you then changed. Rap, as a genre is notorious for sampling? Is it because they are not actually musicians? Maybe. *ducks
too bad, Dr. dre.... being bit by your own is the only way to get you to wake up.
You clearly demonstrate miscomprehension of the situation.
Dr Dre has never been against sampling. it is suicide for a hip-hop artist to be against sampling. this is the one thing that basically all rappers/producers can agree on.
Dre is against file sharing of music. Not sampling. Are you too dim to see the difference?
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Parody is protected free speech under law.
Fair Use is not law.
So, while you're entirely right about there being new artistic uses, sampling in the Dr. Dre sense is a whole other animal.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
"that the vast majority of rappers aren't very good. But there are a few out there (including Dr. Dre) who are actually making music." you're a moron. the lyrics in rock can be just as important as anything. i hate when people try to claim rap has some special connection to poetry. go listen to some velvet underground, patti smith, or bob dylan before you make such a dumb comment.
I guess we are about to find out if Dr. Dre has given up his gang-banger past, or if $1.5M exceeds his generosity and patience.
... I'm on the motherfscker. Go back in there and chill them niggas out, and wait for Glonoinha, which should be coming directly.
Fo' shizzle my nizzle, Dre if you are reading this leave me an email address to hook up at, I am pretty sure that for $1M I can make this all go away, save you half a Meg and make an example out of those punks at London-based Minder Music Ltd.
You ain't got no problem, Dre
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