>>105530795Not really. Sampling is a long forgotten art not that dissimilar to the current permission system for content creators.
Before it was codified as "not allowed" back in the nineties there was no restriction on reusing motifs and sounds from existing songs.
There were three cases that ended up codifying the current excessively restrictive system
1) Queen and David Bowie vs. Vanilla Ice
Vanilla Ice liften the riff from a song the Queen made for David Bowie and threw his own spin on it
>Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Babyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepElifted from
>David Bowie - Under Pressurehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuBBd9W4hkThe Queen didn't take it lightly and took Vanilla Ice to court and it was less about having lifted the riff but more about making such a low brow basic bitch song with it that it irked the artists that first made the sound.
The Queen won in court but Vanilla Ice, being street smart enough (and the industry putting almost a ZERO value on songs already released) was ABSOLUTELY FUCKING GENIUS and OUTRIGHT BOUGHT the rights to the original song (for pennies), becoming the legitimate owner of the song, the riff and ended up not having to pay a dime.
2) Rolling Stones vs. The Verve, with
>The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphonyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74lifting the whole sound out of a cover of a Rolling Stones song done by The Andrew Oldham Orchestra
>Rolling Stones - The Last Time (The Andrew Oldham Orchestra)The Rolling Stones took the Verve to court because, despite The Verve securing perms to sample a bit of the song, they sampled the whole fucking thing and the Rolling Stones didn't really like it.
In court the Rolling Stones won and every single penny made by The Verve from that song was awarded to the Rolling Stones, who also got FULL CREDITS to Bittersweet Symphony.
This is one of the cases that pissed the "peanut gallery" the most because it was considered "not fair" but you listen to both songs you'll realise The Verve has no case there, the lyrics are actually a DETRIMENT to the song in a way no better than what Vanilla Ice did.
Then, the final blow
3) Marvin Gaye estate v. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams
It's about this song right here
>Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDUC1LUXSUwhich got the pair sued by the estate of Marvin Gaye not because it was a direct sample of any Marvin Gaye song but because it SOUND SIMILAR TO THE STYLE of the late singer.
It was one of the biggest travesties of litigation in this area because, before that, it was cut and dry outright sampling of existing songs but in this case, it was because it
>sounded like something he would have done if alivewhich is retarded.
In any case sampling was never actually considered either plagiarism or stealing up until very recently, it was more like "standing on the shoulder of giants" but commercialism killed it and that's why up until five years ago the industry was filled with "mixtapes and beats" from niggers doing it for 10 cents, and now AI will end up dominating the whole scene with laundered tunes that people won't be able to pin to any particular song but that are actually the product of many songs.
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