Re: Fwd: FNV-RIAA IS CRACKING DOWN

["Mikell D. Nelson" <mnelson@dmans.com>]

Yo sampler,
  While I respect your right to your own opinion, I strongly disagree
with your basic tenant: artists have the right to sample (copy) portions
of another artist's work for their own use. I believe this is simply
stealing. Sampling is fine, just be honest about it. Give credit to your
sources and pay for using the original artist's work.

Motley


> GRAIGORY2@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I received this article the other day from Lee Ballinger and the good 
>folks
> over at Rock N Roll Confidential.. I thought it was something we should
> know about especially since I had let y'all know about the recent clamp
> downs on mixtapes and other forms of 'illegally recorded' music.. The 
>RIAA
> really is on a mission.. This new tactic is kinda scary because it's 
>really
> gonna hurt the underground hip hop artists who have been doing their 
>thing
> without clearing samples..
> 
>  One of the things currently stiffling hip hop's creativity is the fact
> that a producer can no longer sample 4 or 5 songs and come up with a 
>unique
> sound for us to groove to... Publishing companies which usually own the
> rights to a lot these songs have been aggressively going after producers
> who sample and don't get things cleared.. At the same time these 
>publishing
> companies demand tremendous amounts of money and royalty points to songs
> containing samples from their music catalogue. Hence anartist can sample 
>2
> or 3 songs and will actually owe all the publishing houses 200%  plus 
>some
> upfront money for the song.. It's no wonder so many artists have resorted
> to just sampling one familiar loop.. It's gotten way too expensive to do
> otherwise..