Independent Lens | COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS | Film Clip #2 | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/copyright-criminals They say I'm the world's number one sampledest drummer. I haven't got a penny for it yet though.

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money. The film traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than 30 years, innovative hip-hop performers and producers have been re-using portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions. When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a "borrowed melody" became a "copyright infringement."

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS rebroadcasts the week of November 29, 2010 on Independent Lens, a weekly series airing on PBS. Visit the Web site for more: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/copyright-criminals

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[jesuswasntafascist]

Recording industry are criminals, period.

[JixMa]

How so freakin' unfair to some artists, huh? I mean, to never get the credit and the recognition of one's work and one's talent that one deserves is despicable. Three cheers for Melissa Etheridge who *did* thank Clyde Stubblefield.

[Bljack23]

God help this 7 people who dislike this. :)

[memachelle]

i have yet to hear anything 'original' in the majority of new music released. 

[djchubakka]

@Lynnc83 Actually it makes you have to actually learn how to play the drums.

[prebefore]

I second that opinion below...exactly what I thought!!!

[Lynnc83]

COPYRIGHT kills creativity :D

[TheLucius14]

Beats like the amen break, or other so often sampled beats by the funky drummer are been taken coz of the way they´re sounding, and the way the´re sounding is the result of the drummer, the drumset, the way the microphoned and recordet it and at least how it is mixed, so this all ist the work youre usin there without payin4 it.

Iin the End , the companies r the one who mostly takin samplin Artists to court, but 4 their own interests, they don´t give a rat´s ass 4 the musicians/composers!

[TheLucius14]

If you usin a sampled Phrase as a Waveform and create something new out of it, theres no copyright conflict imo, but if you usin something coz of the way it sounds you are usin somebodies work,

[billhannon]

@bigg0atpimpin I don't think that's the point

[elevatesounds]

Once again whos fault is that? And to be honest its the sound of the acoustic drum kit and the room it was played in and the gear it was processed through that makes the sound. Thats what you recognize. Yeah they sample but they could get a drummer to play the same ish on their track and it would be fine yet sound the same. This is such BS

[appapo3]

I had a Koop video pulled for terms of agreement violation . They only removed the audio. Their cd is copyrighted,but made from samples that are public domain spliced together. If you never heard of Koop I can't help it they don't what any to hear their music on You Tube or let people have fun with their music . So many other artist would love for to display their work.