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The Impact of Sampling on the Music Industry: Creativity, Ownership, and Copyright Issues
TLDR Sampling in music has sparked debates about creativity and ownership in the industry, with artists facing lawsuits and copyright issues. While sampling has become more limited and costly, Fair Use in the United States allows for the use of snippets of music without permission for certain purposes.
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Bridgeport, a music catalog company, gained notoriety for suing artists, including Jay-Z, for sampling copyrighted songs.
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Bridgeport, a music catalog company, gained notoriety for suing artists, including Jay-Z, for sampling copyrighted songs without permission, even if the samples were unrecognizable, which sparked a debate about creativity and ownership in the music industry.
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The Amen break has been sampled thousands of times and gave birth to drum and bass and jungle music, and it was played by Gregory Sylvester Coleman of the Winston's.
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Before the invention of keyboards and samplers, people would splice magnetic tapes together to create their own samples, and the origins of electronic music can be traced back to the avant-garde work of Pierre Schaefer and Pierre Henry in the 1940s.
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Dickie Goodman and Bill Buchanan in 1956 created a commercial version of music concrete with their mashup song "Flying Saucer," which combined rock and roll hits with a fake news report about aliens landing from outer space.
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Sampling in music began with DJs like DJ Cool Herc and DJ Grandmaster Flash in the 1970s and 1980s, who would take drum breaks and other elements from different songs and put them together to create new tracks, but now sampling has become less creative and more limited due to copyright issues.
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Sampling in music became more limited and less creative after artists faced lawsuits and copyright issues, leading to the need for permission and royalties to be paid to the original artists.
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Sampling in music can be costly, with artists having to pay for the rights to sample a song and potentially multiple copyright owners if they use a specific recording, leading to larger bills and potential legal issues.
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The Beastie Boys won a case regarding copyright infringement for their use of a three-note flute sample in their song "Pass the Mic."
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Fair Use allows for the playing of snippets of music without permission in the United States for purposes such as commentary, criticism, research, teaching, or news reporting, but it is unclear if it applies outside of the US.
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