EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I think we all know what is right or wrong.
Intelligent beings can rationalise anything but let me give an example or 2.

1:  I produced and wrote a track for a new artist with a major label. Paid
all the session players etc.
3 months later I¹m in Sydney on a writing session and I need a funk guitar
part for the song I¹m writing/programming. It¹s got a similar but faster
groove and is 2 steps higher. I grab tha data CD from the old session as the
part I want is on the CD. I go through the out-takes of the guitarist,
sample a few odds n sods, cut & paste and voila, funky new guitar part! I
then ring the session player and explain and tell him I¹ll be sending him a
partial session fee for the demo and the remainder if the track is produced
with his parts. Good vibes all round.

2:  I¹d been writing with a major dance artist who¹d had a world-wide hit
with a particular song.
I noticed about 6 months later that the title of this song had turned up,
re-arranged but almost un-recognisable in the chorus of a song I¹d written
which is gonna be a single for an artist. It was clear to me that the words
had been rattling around in my head all that time and had popped out in this
new song. I rang the first artist and her manager and explained the
situation. To their credit, they completely understood and after I mp3¹d a
copy of the new song they said I was an idiot for even worrying about it,
but appreciated the concern.

My point is...why don¹t we do what¹s right, not what we can get away with.
Then the sampling issue becomes a lot clearer.
If someone samples my work and tells me I¹ll feel a whole lot better about
than if I hear it on the radio after the fact.
Peace
Clive Young 


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