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RE: Sampling debate


> As for legality, and working against the wishes of others affected by 
>art,
> i present U2.  One of their videos (don't remember which song now) was a
> marvelous act of civil disobedience.  They went to LA, and had every 
>radio
> and tv station in town announce a free public concert in a park, THAT 
>DAY.
> No permits, no permission, no nothing - they just set up in the park to
> play.  Thousands of people showed up.  The police were caught in a
> situation where they risked a riot if they tried to stop it.  :} 
> 
        A funny thing about this story: I knew/worked with the guys who did
the production for that . . . they were, IMHO, cut-throat bastards. As far
as I know, they were the guys who engineered that scenario, not U2 (not a
big U2 fan, so if they're dirty on this, that's fine too ). The guy who, on
camera, gets served with the papers to desist filming the video? The same
guy who crossed out all of my friend's hard-earned overtime on a production
job, explaining "the basis of capitalism is exploitation of the worker." So
much for legality . . . 

        stig

        BTW, some of those guys went on to big-time $$ in the film industry
. . . which is, as we know, even more insane than the record industry.