Independent Lens | COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS | Film Clip #3 | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/copyright-criminals "You can't put soul in a bottle. You can't quantify soul by a person who's just got a briefcase."

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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[dillinjaesc]

'Stepfather Factory' (instrumental)

by El-P from the album Fantastic Damage.

[jumpnjackflasher]

Anybody know the song in the background?

[pigfister]

google and watch "RiP: A remix manifesto"

the corporations are trying to copywrite everything forever, so whatever is produced the gatekeepers "Sony, Warner, Universal" get a slice of every pie or you will be blocked from being creative.

our culture held to ransom by scumbags.

[pigfister]

most of it had.

[binkle1]

I hear SO many contemporary songs with backbeats from the 80s,. 70s, and even 60s!. I'm the middle-aged lady standing in Aeropostole yelling "Hey! That's that backbeat from 'Tainted Love!" while her poor daughter tries to disappear through the floor. But how do I know that stuff I listened to back in the 60s hadn't been "borrowed," too? ;)