Friday, March 14, 2008
Laws against Sampling not good for creativity
This week we watched a film about sampling. I never really thought how someone making a remix from someone else’s song can get into so much trouble. I always assumed that no one would care. After watching the film, I learned that under current laws and regulations, you can’t even pay royalties to sample other people’s work, and even if you had all the money in the world it would take a long time to get through the regulations. I think there’s definitely something wrong there and it sends out a red light in terms of creativity in the music industry. In my opinion, I think sampling should be allowed without permission if it is not for commercial purposes and if it is for commercial purposes paying royalties should be enough as long as it doesn’t somehow hurt the original artist’s profits.
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I agree. I think sampling is a great creative source. A lot of creativity comes from this type of music making. I also think it helps the artist whose music is used...his music is spread more.
I feel that sampling should be allowed also. Also you pose great points with ways to avoid the legal restraints that are faced by artists who thrive off of sampling. If the work is not produced for commercial use there is no reason why these remix artists should have to worry about legal ramifications for the work that they do, and if it is produced for commercial sale, royalties would be a great way to avoid problems. It would provide the original artists with a form of compensation and allow the samplers to have more creative freedoms when developing their work.
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