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Re:My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Intern... by hombre_fatal on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:34PM (#23934757)
> Under the north american system, the copyright owner would have made millions of dollars, and entire genres of music would.never have been created in their current form.

Not the most convincing conjecture when the "loser" in your comparison is one of the biggest music genre-creating powerhouses in the world and its music is rife with sampling, and the "winner" in your comparison is mainly known for a single genre of music.

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Re:My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Intern... by currymj on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:13PM (#23934978)
many of those sampling heavy American music styles (hip-hop, much electronic music) were very directly and strongly influenced by Jamaican dub which grew out of reggae.

I think the argument is reasonable that we don't get any of it, at least not in the forms we have now, without Jamaican music. DJ Kool Herc was Jamaican.

on the other hand, it is definitely true that the American music industry with its strict copyright has not exactly been stagnant. but it is different.

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