Re: muddying the sampling waters/copyright

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- What Stones tune did the Verve loop?  I never picked up on it.. 
- Brendan


 01:08 PM 8/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>This isn't strictly about the sampling issue, but it may be an interesting
>side-light:
>
>Anyone remember the Richard Roundtree/Shaft rip-off ad as Schlitz Malt
>Liquor? It seems that the producers of the ad hired the guy, J.J. Johnson,
>who did the original orchestrations for the Shaft theme music (and other
>music for the film) that Isaac Hayes did. Isaac Hayes sued the producers,
>J.J., and Schlitz and their ad agency for some sort of copyright
>infringement because the music sounded TOO similar to the original. A lot 
>of
>the similarity was, of course, due to the wah-wah guitar part that, 
>although
>different, lent much of the flavor to the ad's music. The defense brought 
>in
>a lot of music experts on the wah-wah and its sound, etc. The jury came 
>back
>and found in favor of Isaac Hayes.
>
>Now when I heard the music for the ad on TV, I said, "Oh someone's copped
>the Shaft theme, pretty funny." Apparently, you CAN sue for that. 
>
>Same defense attorney had a case where Tom Waits sued Doritos (I think it
>was) because they used a "sound alike" for one of their ads. I guess the
>defense said that the agency had wanted the sound of someone who Waits had
>modeled some of HIS sound on . . . can't remember how that went, but I'm 
>not
>sure that Waits didn't win.
>
>
>
>Did anyone see that Jagger/Richards seem to have gotten ALL of the
>publishing for the Verve's "Sweet Symphony" (real title escapes me right
>now) bacause of the sample that was looped/used? This blew my mind, then I
>was explaining the deal that was made to someone who wasn't a musician and
>why it outrages me. His response: "Oh that's the whole song, of course
>Jagger/Richards should get it all"!
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