Spuntastic
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Yo everyone,
I'm making hiphop beats based on samples for about 3 years now and I'm still asking myself how "far" you can go with your samples. If you clearly recognize a sample in a hiphop beat, that isn't chopped, pitched, played faster or slower, just looped, would you consider this as stolen? And I mean not just "stolen sample" but stolen melody, i.e. stolen idea.
I often listen to jazz or blues thinking "oh, this 4/5 seconds would make a great melody sample", without having to chop it or change the velocity. Some might say now there is no problem at all sampling a trumpet melody from dizzy gillespie back from the 50s. But what about current film scores? Just to give an example: The movie "Moon" has a brilliant score and I made a beat using some melodys out of it. Is it (from a legal perspective) more "dangerous" to sample melodys from current movies than from Jazz/Blues/Soul/whateva from the 30s/40s/50s/60s ?
And in addition to that: I use a lot of movie quotes in my Instrumentals. What is the worst thing that could happen to me, using a 10sec quote from Dazed and Confused, The Man Who Wan't There or Reservoir Dogs (etc.)?
Cheers,
Spuntastic
I'm making hiphop beats based on samples for about 3 years now and I'm still asking myself how "far" you can go with your samples. If you clearly recognize a sample in a hiphop beat, that isn't chopped, pitched, played faster or slower, just looped, would you consider this as stolen? And I mean not just "stolen sample" but stolen melody, i.e. stolen idea.
I often listen to jazz or blues thinking "oh, this 4/5 seconds would make a great melody sample", without having to chop it or change the velocity. Some might say now there is no problem at all sampling a trumpet melody from dizzy gillespie back from the 50s. But what about current film scores? Just to give an example: The movie "Moon" has a brilliant score and I made a beat using some melodys out of it. Is it (from a legal perspective) more "dangerous" to sample melodys from current movies than from Jazz/Blues/Soul/whateva from the 30s/40s/50s/60s ?
And in addition to that: I use a lot of movie quotes in my Instrumentals. What is the worst thing that could happen to me, using a 10sec quote from Dazed and Confused, The Man Who Wan't There or Reservoir Dogs (etc.)?
Cheers,
Spuntastic