Sampling, copyright law, & hip hop. Official account for The Art of Sampling (book & website); musician account for Sa’id (@amirsaid). [email protected]theartofsampling.com/product/the-ar… New York • ParisJoined January 2013
One of the things that made James Brown an extraordinary musician, producer, and recording artist. And also what makes James Brown uniquely instructive for beatmaking.
Fair Use And The Music Industry
Fair use is one of the most important parts of the Copyright Act. But those who run the music industry are not only ignorant of fair use, they’re down right dismissive of it.
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“All” samples do NOT need to be cleared because a digital sample of a sound recording — like the borrowing of any copyrightable subject matter — is not *inherently infringement.
The de minimis and fair use doctrines apply to literary works just as they do to sound recordings.
Grandmaster Flash Battled Mozart At The Fever, And Mozart Got Burned
*Hip hop/rap music and its beatmaking tradition shine their own light; they do not stand in the shadow of the Western classical music tradition.*
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Source Material As A Black Cultural Space: The Link Between Continuum Record Collections and The Advent of The Sampling Tradition of Hip Hop/Rap Music
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Was It Fair Use? Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – “Road To The Riches” (Prod. By Marley Marl)
Applying the thresholds of the fair use test to one of hip/hop rap
music’s greatest sample-based songs.
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I’m a tell y’all right now. I’ve seen unstoppable hunger before. Nobody stopping him. He’s going to be one of the greats.
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By this logic then, is a “trap”
artist not a rapper? Whether it’s grime or trap, the base fundamental form is *rap*. The *genre of rap doesn’t change the fact that the vocalists are *rapping*.
Rap is the art form and the umbrella. Grime, like trap, is a sub-genre (under the…
By this logic then, is a “trap”
artist not a rapper? Whether it’s grime or trap, the base fundamental form is *rap*. The *genre of rap doesn’t change the fact that the vocalists are *rapping*.
Rap is the art form and the umbrella. Grime, like trap, is a sub-genre (under the…
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