Thursday, April 24, 2008
Copyright Laws and Mashup Music
Since I haven't been able to go out lately i decided to do some research online about the concerns some musicians are having. I was able to find an article specifically talking about this issue at http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/08/09/mashups_cruger/index1.html . Apparently the concern is whether or not copyright infringement is occurring when a track is sampled and transformed into something new by a completely different artist. In this case the artist is the DJ, which samples instrumentals and lyrics of other artists. There hasn't been any clear cut line where laws can declare some mashups as infringing the copyright of the original score that was sampled. The already tricky laws of the courts are becomming even more unclear to understand and interpret.
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Hey, I checked out the Salon.com article-- very cool, I liked the Burning Man "wheel of mash-up" if you followed the "Evolution Control Committee" link. That's excellent and goes in my permanent collection. It's also a pretty good point that mash-ups have become pretty mainstream at this point-- I mean Gwenn Stephanie is pitching the on HP ads, right? Will that make copyright infringement cool, also? This may be good for Hewlett-Packard who were the original popularizer of the photo-copy machine, way back when, after all. Good reference.
Laws can be very tricky. Though I am a very law abiding man myself, I feel that the right to freely listen or even sample music without having to pay is such a huge issue in society today - especially with the revolution of the internet. It is so hard because these days you even hear Kanye West - Strong and hear a sample of Daft Punk's song. It just encourages more people to do more sampling.
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