Comments on: Kraftwerk Gets Copyright Smackdown

By: PoisonedV

PoisonedV — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:54:15 +0000

synthhead: like daft punk?
LOL.
Sampling is not basing your songs off other peoples, it’s using them in your own composition.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:42:06 +0000

I am perfectly happy with this decision, but I think that you should give credit if you are using someone else’s work – even if it’s just two seconds that maybe went through filters and are not recognizable anymore.

By: synthhead

synthhead — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:40:17 +0000

I tend to agree with being looser on sampling – but, frankly, I hate when there’s a new hit and all they did was take a great 70’s song & sample 4 bars of it.

By: HongKongGeorge

HongKongGeorge — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:39:18 +0000

the use of thrown away records, tapes, slides, photo’s, videotapes, film, books and magazines is not an infringement of copyright, its dumpsterphonics!

By: s i n e f i e l d

s i n e f i e l d — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:00:03 +0000

To be perfectly honest, the idea of someone lifting a few seconds of my work and doing something else with it doesn’t bother me…the idea of a company or political entity using my work without permission does. Kind of splitting hairs, I guess.

By: MisterCharlie

MisterCharlie — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:17:10 +0000

the problem with sampling is that the samplers take all the credits… either they hide the fact that they sample, or the listening crowd is just too dumb to realise who did the true work…