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Anyway, thanks for your valuable, insightful comments on this matter. It's been a privilege having you. You've really made me think.
Goodbye.
I've got a peculiar interest in this. I'm a former C64 and Ami demo coder. My fledgling compositions on RockMon and ProTracker have carried through to my present day career as an audio engineer, composer and producer. To be frank I'm disgusted to see such barefaced plagiarism. People may whinge that hip-hop is unoriginal, derivative etc. Yet the fact remains that Timbaland makes lots of money from what he does, and were he to use a sample from, let's say The Rolling Stones (any musos will understand the relevance of this example) he would have had it cleared before the track was even finished, never mind being brought to account after the fact. No matter how talented the producer, lots of time in the studio is spent aimlessly shoving audio clips about, making coffee, smoking cigarettes or whatever all with the aim of coming up with a good idea. That's what a composer is paid for. It seems to me that he, or more likely one of the geekier engineers he works with, has discovered this little known seam of genius and opportunistically decided that it is their right to harvest it in the view that it is somehow less worthy, very likely unprotected and easily appropriated via the David and Goliath dialectic that typifies these situations.
Another example of such plagiaristic arrogannce may be found below. Coca-cola have blatantly ripped off Joel Veitch's work for use in an Argentian ad campaign.
Outwith the finer points of the argument, such behaviour is morally reprehensible and I'm sick of it. Due credit to those who create.
http://www.robmanuel.com/2006/12/13/is-coke-rippin g-off-the-little-guy/
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You've never "HEARD" of the demoscene? Check your browser bar. This is S-L-A-S-H-D-O-T-.-O-R-G Anyway, thanks for your valuable, insightful comments on this matter. It's been a privilege having you. You've really made me think. Goodbye.
I've got a peculiar interest in this. I'm a former C64 and Ami demo coder. My fledgling compositions on RockMon and ProTracker have carried through to my present day career as an audio engineer, composer and producer. To be frank I'm disgusted to see such barefaced plagiarism. People may whinge that hip-hop is unoriginal, derivative etc. Yet the fact remains that Timbaland makes lots of money from what he does, and were he to use a sample from, let's say The Rolling Stones (any musos will understand the relevance of this example) he would have had it cleared before the track was even finished, never mind being brought to account after the fact. No matter how talented the producer, lots of time in the studio is spent aimlessly shoving audio clips about, making coffee, smoking cigarettes or whatever all with the aim of coming up with a good idea. That's what a composer is paid for. It seems to me that he, or more likely one of the geekier engineers he works with, has discovered this little known seam of genius and opportunistically decided that it is their right to harvest it in the view that it is somehow less worthy, very likely unprotected and easily appropriated via the David and Goliath dialectic that typifies these situations. Another example of such plagiaristic arrogannce may be found below. Coca-cola have blatantly ripped off Joel Veitch's work for use in an Argentian ad campaign. Outwith the finer points of the argument, such behaviour is morally reprehensible and I'm sick of it. Due credit to those who create. http://www.robmanuel.com/2006/12/13/is-coke-rippin g-off-the-little-guy/