>i'm not seeing where people are confused.
>
>
>this me just spitting off the dome,
>but this is how i see it.
>
>
>an INTERPOLATION is when you take somebody else's musical
>idea
>and replay it on the record... and incorporate it into your
>own composition.
>
>



In other words. A song was stolen.


>lauryn hill was doing an interpolation of that delfonics's
>record
>when she sang, "ready or not, here i come. you can't hide...
>gonna findddd you, and take it slowly."
>
>she was singing somebody else's melody,
>and she was incorporating it into that fugee's record.
>that's an interpolation.
>
>
>
>
>a SAMPLE is when you take a part of somebody else's record
>and play a snippit of it back in your own compisiition.
>
>so timbiland was sampling the defonics "ready or not"
>when he replayed back a portion of it in missy's "sock it to
>me."
>
>
>
>a COVER is when you just do another version of somebody else's
>record. the jackson 5 was covering the delfonics "ready or
>not"
>when they sang another version of the song. you have to pay
>for that too.
>
>
>you have to pay for all of those.
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>what's happening here is none of those things.
>pharell heard "got to give it up."
>
>he made something in a similar style.
>
>
>
>
>
>so what?
>that's how art is made.
>you can't copyright a style. or a vibe. or the feeling of a
>song.
>
>this is a suit to prevent further legal action in the future.
>
>you're just wrong.


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