Sampling DO's and DON'Ts

[MissingNo]

EDIT: Ignore this post, I clearly misunderstood the Kraftwerk court case

[DPalive]

dont do anything flo rida does.... just dont.

[Ridley]

EDIT: Ignore this post, I clearly misunderstood the Kraftwerk court case

I googled that and it seems that based on the ruling in that case you can sample two seconds from a song if you don't sample the melody and if the resulting song is very different from the sampled song. At least in Germany.

[Nerd42]

If you want to be legal out of respect for the law and the intentions behind the law then don't do anything creative. In fact, don't breathe, because breathing produces CO2, a greenhouse gas and you don't have a permit for that.

If you're worried about being sued then either 1. Stay non-commercial like me and sample whatever you want, however you want, 2. Make sure nobody can tell or 3. Be rich, because rich people get to do whatever they want.

[MissingNo]

If you want to be legal out of respect for the law and the intentions behind the law then don't do anything creative. In fact, don't breathe, because breathing produces CO2, a greenhouse gas and you don't have a permit for that.

If you're worried about being sued then either 1. Stay non-commercial like me and sample whatever you want, however you want, 2. Make sure nobody can tell or 3. Be rich, because rich people get to do whatever they want.

"How the World Works 101" by internet personality Nerd42

[Nerd42]

"How the World Works 101" by internet personality Nerd42

Exactly.

[Mr. Hoosteen]

a sample i used was five seconds

from Funkadelic's One Nation Under A Groove,

will that count?

http://soundcloud.com/daftsounds909/livin-da-good-life

[tom2991]

i don't think your case would be somethin' to sweat hard over, particularly because you haven't used it for financial gain. i'm not some fancy, big city lawyer, so don't take my opinions as your own; but as long as you're merely taking a simple hook or riff, go for it.
but, as dpalive said, don't go balls out obnoxious with the sampling and make a very small percentage of it your own. legal battles are sure to rise, and no one's going to consider you a creative person.
i don't like avicii, but what flo rida did with "levels" just left me thinking, "holy ****, creative standards are reaching an all time low". same with jason derulo's horrid attempt on reviving "africa" by toto. i wanted to punch his throat so damn hard.

with that said; nice track, i enjoyed it. =]

[PuddingCat]

i don't think your case would be somethin' to sweat hard over, particularly because you haven't used it for financial gain. i'm not some fancy, big city lawyer, so don't take my opinions as your own; but as long as you're merely taking a simple hook or riff, go for it.
but, as dpalive said, don't go balls out obnoxious with the sampling and make a very small percentage of it your own. legal battles are sure to rise, and no one's going to consider you a creative person.
i don't like avicii, but what flo rida did with "levels" just left me thinking, "holy ****, creative standards are reaching an all time low". same with jason derulo's horrid attempt on reviving "africa" by toto. i wanted to punch his throat so damn hard.

with that said; nice track, i enjoyed it. =]

i like avicii but that is your opinion.
on topic, i did think flo rida ****ed the **** out of it.
i swear to ****ing god. tim didn't deserve that goddamn butchering.

98% avicii
2% flo rida

[davetherave3009]

It goes actually even further than that. The plain editing in the DAW of your choice is considered to be illegal already.

Uploading (or just rendering) a track that contains samples even if it is used for non commercial purpose is also illegal. Since the internet is a huge pool of copyright violations you can say it is trivial but it only shows that the copyright law as it is today is outdated.

The internet has its own rules.

Then why is Fatboy Slim still alive?