CopyRight or Wrong
February 16, 2014
I really enjoyed this documentary on copyright infringement and sampling in the music industry. My favorite anecdotal argument in favor of sampling was Walt Disney’s use famous fairy tales, fables and myths and creating hugely successful works of art from them. I like a lot of mash-ups, house music, and other popular music that uses sampling. I agree that it is an infringment when whole songs or melodies are used, but to take a small snippet of someone else’s work and put it into your own, I find it to be more of an homage to the other artist. I suppose there needs to be a sampling percentage limit set on how much you can in your song but then the litigious repercussions would be even more outrageous.
Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod, Copyright Criminals (2009) (video – 56:29)