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Re: [L-OT] (redirected) So big music guns DO steal music all the time!!

2002-04-25 by Joeri Vankeirsbilck

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>  "We had to work fast, says a Glitter source"...  and do what? Find 
>another sample?  Is that working fast?  I thought working fast would 
>mean working fast to create something.  Why do they have to "work 
>fast" to find something to cannibalize?  Why couldn't they just make 
>a groove?  Is this really what it has come to at the top end of the 
>biz where people are signing $80,000,000.00 deals?
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>There was a time when people actually wrote music and using the music 
>someone else wrote was considered plagiarism.
>
>Now who gets dibs on a sample of which hit song is a media sensation?
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Using a sample helps sales very much, even if it costs some money. 
People will/might recognise the sample a bit, and that will make it 
sound "familiar".

>"Pathetic" is the word that leaps into *my* mind.
>
Marketing is the word that leaps into my mind. :-)

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Joeri Vankeirsbilck
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