Is sampling stealing?
Is sampling stealing?
Adam Diaz
Carter Morgan
no
Jason Cook
no
Luis Powell
As long as it's modified in a creative way, then I don't see a problem with it.
Jordan Miller
It's not stealing.
95% of people that sample these days don't do it in interesting or compelling ways. I tend to see most sampling as untalented motherfuckers stealing horn/guitar parts or drum breaks because they can't play an instrument themselves.
Zachary Ramirez
As long as they credit the artist they sampled and use it well, nah
Jason Powell
You know artists have to pay to use samples in the music they release, right?
Connor Nguyen
>It's not stealing.
>as untalented motherfuckers stealing
Do you even read the stuff you post? also
>horn/guitar parts or drum breaks
Dude, it's 2018. Not the 90's. These types of samples are almost dead at this point.
Ian Bailey
You realize acquiring the licenses for samples is fucking expensive. Your average Soundcloud producer isn't clearing those samples. De La Soul got royally (lol pun) fucked by Steely Dan for 3 Feet High and Rising if I remember correctly.
Jace Martinez
it was the turtles, but yea that was the first big sampling case im p sure
Xavier Baker
>Steely Dan
It was the turtles. It was really the first a Hip Hop artist were sued for sampling.
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Brody Price
That's the point I was trying to convey, yes. Sorry if I worded it weirdly.
David Jackson
What happened with Kanye and Fripp though?
Carter Myers
What happened with Kanye and Fripp?
Jordan Price
And then Steely Dan said...
"It ain't me, babe"
Alexander Brown
It's as much stealing as using a I-IV-V chord progression is stealing.
Matthew Morales
wrong.
Sampling isn't stealing but that's a fucking AWFUL comparison.
Sampling is using an ESTABLISHED idea/creation as an art alongside your own, whether that's tonally, contextually, or whatever.
A basic musical concept like chords can't be sampled because you can't just own chords.
You can put a case for the chords used with a very specific strumming pattern, with certain harmonies above it, instead of just using hte b building blocks, it's about using those blocks the same way the other artist did where it can't be coincidence most all the time.
Jonathan Wilson
no
Robert Jenkins
nah senpaimly
Anthony Garcia
It’s a cop-out, that’s for sure.
Luis Adams
Pretty sure Kanye legally got the rights through the label
Brayden Rogers
Obviously not if you ask for permission to use the sample.