5. "theyve used other peoples music." In response to Reply # 4
i assume youd wanna be credited/compensated fairly for your art being used by someone else.
same people who bitch about not being paid fairly by lables/streaming services/etc somehow created an acceptable exemption for them using other peoples music for free.
aka crediting the rightful originator who put their heart and soul into creating the initial composition from scratch.
i just recently saw a clip of an older jazz artist speak about how someone contacted him and showed him a (then) current song that looped one of his works. he said he was honored to be recognized by an artist of the newer generation...but broke down into tears when he found out it was past the statute of limitations and there was no way he could be properly compensated for it.
for some reason...most people only see things from the side of the freeloader.
8. "you DUMMY" In response to Reply # 6 Tue Feb-16-21 05:19 PM by howardlloyd
99% of the time the master is not owned by the creator. writers own the song. labels own the "sound recording"
its owned by the labels...who exploited them.
and what statute of limitations? if there was a statute of limitations de la soul would have its catalog up and artists wouldnt be sued decades after the fact
Don't know why Bob was limited to what his options were with "Peter Piper" but Bob claims he couldn't get some royalties from it for or until a certain time.
12. "I'm strongly thinking if the song using a sample hasn't been" In response to Reply # 11 Tue Feb-16-21 08:00 PM by c71
caught early enough (De La, Biz Markie were caught early after the records were released) that is what affects how much the originator can get (court is like "you should have got it sooner!!!")
For instance, when I read the Knack was using RUN DMC in 2006 for "it's tricky" that was released in 1986, I thought that was "off". I read the case was settled out of court so maybe that shows the Knack really couldn't "do" RUN DMC like they could if the Knack sued in 1986 - 1992
19. "apparently the statute of limitations for copyright infringement" In response to Reply # 10 Wed Feb-17-21 09:34 AM by Reeq
is 3 years.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190605-nine-most-notorious-copyright-cases-in-music-history ----- The segment on the track formed the foundation for jungle in the 90s, and arguably the genre of drum & bass wouldn’t today exist without it. Despite this, the writers never received any royalties, due to statute of limitations for copyright infringement in the US being just three years. -----
im sure each case is different and there are obviously some conditions/criteria otherwise met where people sue and get legal remedies beyond that point (we have seen artists have to pay up for older sampled work). but the statute of limitations does exists and artists have been barred from compensation in the past.
>aka crediting the rightful originator who put their heart and >soul into creating the initial composition from scratch.
Why do folks have such a hard time injecting any sense of nuance into these conversations? There are issues that beg for care and thought and instead it's always a race to absolutes and manifestos.
"sample snitching" is a ridiculous phrase, particularly in the context of online chatter, but it does point to an uncomfortable fact: listeners (and producers!) exchanging discoveries on the internet can cause financial and legal trouble for producers later down the line.
And although we can talk all day about how sampling should/shouldn't work and who is owed what, the truth is that there are lots of reasons someone might not clear a sample.
(also, someone correct me if I'm wrong bc i'm not 100% here, but properly *clearing* a sample does always mean that it will be clearly attributed in credits (especially now that credits don't exist) -- so "crediting the rightful originator" is not exactly what clearance is about...)
Regardless, you came in wanting to know the source of a sample but then turned the act of asking the question into some sort of crusade for the original artist... and that's kind of shady, lol.
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