[78-L] Copyright Criminals on PBS

[Cary Ginell]

Sampling cannot be compared to copying someone's style. It is lifting the EXACT NOTES from a performance, which leaves no room for interpretation, individual expression or anything other than maybe manipulating the speed the original notes were played at, distorting, creating loops, etc. Sampling has nothing to do with style. It is theft. Pure and simple.

Just because someone invented the Xerox machine doesn't give people the right to steal other people's work because technology says "they can." "Copyright" means just that: the right to copy. When someone owns a copyright, they own the rights to copying that work. Nobody can legally do it without permission or a license. The title of the PBS special says it all - it doesn't say "Copyright Creativity" - it says "Copyright Criminals" and that's what these people are who do this.

Cary Ginell

> From: timhuskisson at btinternet.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:29:42 +0000
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Copyright Criminals on PBS
> 
> These Hip Hop artists are sampling older music simply because they can. The
> technology allows this. It's the modern equivalent of copying the style of
> an earlier musician. Whether making music from 'loops' and samples is as
> creative as actually playing a musical instrument... I doubt. 
> 
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