EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of PersingEP@..., 23-07-2002:

>Please Man....stop making it so complicated. If you release an album with our
>samples combined with others to make a musical work...that's music. If you
>release a sampling CD that from our material, that is licensed to others that
>is theft.
>
>Let's not get into the boring specifics OK. I'd be happy to turn you on to
>numerous copyright attorneys that can explain all the details, case law and
>legal precedents. It's not as gray as you think.
>
>But I agree that this is way off topic and we have beaten this horse beyond
>death!

Okay, okay, calm down...  Sorry, I didn't want to annoy anyone.  Not 
at all in fact.  And usually I don't tend to engage in discussions 
like these, since they're mostly quite boring and lead nowhere. 
However, this time my curiosity was peaked because of the kind of 
arguments involved -- i.e. using samples for "real music" versus 
using them "for sampling purposes".  Even though the intent of such 
statements is perfectly clear (from a purely "we're all humans and 
speak the same language" perspective), the practicalities involved 
are not that clear at all imo.  I just thought it was interesting to 
explore what the borders are and how one would go about defining them 
(if at all).  The Cage-lawsuit is just one example of how fuzzy this 
all is.  But if it annoys people, then fine (well... not fine), let's 
give it a rest.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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