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What it really boils down to is the size of the pot.
It isn't worth paying the lawyers to draft and file the paperwork over a couple thousand 12"s and some downloads. That is why you can pretty much get away with sampling whatever you like in underground dance music. The pressings are so small and there is so little money there, that it isn't worth it for rights holders to go after infringement.
came across this dj rupture quote, although he's talking about mix cds instead of original production that incorporates samples:
"That's an enormous amount of work," he says. "With my previous releases, I would kind of explain to everybody and get verbal permissions from the underground and independent artists, and not even bother with Missy Elliott or any of the major label stuff. But the legal climate for that type of thing has changed -- at least when you're releasing commercial CDs with uncleared tracks on it. It just doesn't make sense to do it anymore. So I don't know what my next mix-CD will be like -- it might just be an online mix available for free. Then I could say, 'If I had a CD for sale, this is what it would be.' But if I did try, it would probably cost me $70,000 because I couldn't get The-Dream to sign off on a cappella or whatever."
it's from here, but it also has girl talk saying some annoying things and i don't want to turn this into the girl talk thread.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
five years pass...