Independent Lens | COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS | Film Clip #1 | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/copyright-criminals "What the photographer is to the painter is what the modern producer is to the instrumentalist."

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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[KnightTriple6]

they can fine "copyright criminals" millions

and throw them in prision for life but they

cant catch political criminals for their war crimes, crines against humanity, and greed.

[KnightTriple6]

its all about the money abd it gives the government an excuse to invade everyones privacy further.

[Melki]

think a photographer still should ask permission first before taking pictures of paintings.

[rekronce]

rip eyedea!!! imma watch this tonite, its gnna be on tv

[asdertert12345]

@anmoose The photographer didn't create that scene that he photographed, just like the samplist didn't create the scene he captured...These guys don't claim to be better artists than the guys they sample or the greatest in the world, or even that they're artform is the most complex they just want it to be known that sampling takes skill and that there IS musicality and craft to it...

[asdertert12345]

@therawproduct But yeah i agree his statement was pretty ignorant

[asdertert12345]

@therawproduct  That first guy is Steve Albini respected producer of Nirvana...

[DJMETHALBLU]

@bowserb61 hey, uh, nobody gives a flying fuck. 

[Lynnc83]

government gots a iron hand around media wtf O_O

[bowserb61]

And by the way, saying someone's opinion is inconsequential is far more "ignorant" than questioning the legitimacy of an art.

[bowserb61]

Music's validity is completely subjective, that's nothing new, and that's not what I'm trying to say. Rhythmic complexity is not subjective, and that's where this guy is dead wrong. "Turntables are more rhythmically complex than ANY OTHER instrument" is a blatant falsehood.

One of my favorite albums, Tom Waits-Mule Variations, utilizes a turntable, a brake drum, and a Yak-Bak as instruments, all of which are perfectly legitimate in their context.