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Re: Samples and looping



Or one or all of these found around the web

Good composers borrow. Great composers steal.
Igor Stravinsky

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

:)

Jeff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tim echols" <eekamouse67@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: Samples and looping


>
> is this somewhat akin to the picasso quote that "talent is the ability 
>to 
> steal, and genius is the ability to steal unnoticed"?
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> time
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>>  "in Louigi's world, Elvis owes
>> nothing for using the song. (If I've mischaracterized
>> the positions, I apologize.)"
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>> Yeah, that's correct. I would say that paying willingly
>> is fine but you shouldn't be obliged.
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>> On the other hand, guys, there is an interesting thing
>> which happens. If you are not obliged, psychologically you
>> would
>> tend more to want to thank people who contributed.
>> Eventually people get used to contributing and in the long
>> run it once
>>
>> again becomes a certain moral obligation. It is an
>> inevitable process. And such moral norms eventually may end
>> up reflected in law (though I believe
>> today law is way too tiresome and tries to control every
>> aspect of life which is not that good).
>>
>>
>> So I would say this - paying or crediting or somehow
>> thanking the authors is good. It is part of human nature.
>> But in my
>> opinion it should not be governed by law. It should be
>> governed more by common ethics and at the same time be a
>> movement
>>
>> of a kind heart. In that case when you are creatively
>> building something on top of someone else's material,
>> you feel yourself
>> part of a community to which you are contributing and the
>> achievements of which you are using in your work, rather
>> than an
>>
>> individual who "steals" someone else's ideas
>> for his own benefit.
>>
>> I hope I am not too philosophizing %)
>>
>> Louigi.
>>
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