Copyright Criminals looks at the creative and monetary debates over musical sampling, mashing up music videos, studio visits, history, and talking heads including George Clinton and De La Soul.
The documentary on beat mining rounds up more issues than a town hall meeting, poring over everything from the best props for a sampled artist, to the basic merits and methods of the omnivorous art. The tone leans toward pro, with persuasive soundbites that liken sampling to archeology (the listener digs through the aural layers) and the democratic fact that “all these legendary musicians are in my band.” As Picasso once said: good artists borrow, great artists steal.
Visit the documentary’s website, brush up with a sampling glossary and timeline, read an interview with the filmmakers, and purchase the DVD
Comments (9)
Maybe a royalty pay out could be set in place. Say if an music artist become so successful, and makes above a set profit from sampling, they start to pay out royalty fee to where the original sample came from(the creator of the original sounds, beats, etc) This way sampling using artists can thrive freely until they make it big, at which point paying out shouldn’t be a problem.
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Wow , it’s really sad how so many of these “artist” seem so snug in their views. And I seem to be hearing an undercurrent from samplers in this documentary that says that music doesn’t belong to anyone, if I’m hearing that right then why are they getting paid?
most artists aren’t getting paid. Thats where your smugness comes in.
Re: “all these legendary musicians are in my band”…Maybe they don’t want to be in your band.
What happened to the Beastie Boys with Licensed to Ill had so many rip-offs. But if someone said, You can’t release this, we would of never of heard of them. Copyrights only strangle music advances and should be lifted after 20 years like patents. If this hasn’t happened then the record companies still have too much money. When will they learn that they are a dying industry and independence is the future?
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This is screening on Friday (March 5) at NYU in NYC, http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2010/3/5/copyright-criminals-screening-and-qanda
Hey if they are cool with ripping off other musicians riffs then I hope they are cool with me p2ping their shit cos I ain’t paying for it.
As a small time musician that gets paid F!”#all for studio time, when someone steals my riff and doesn’t even give me credit, let alone royalties, that sucks.
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