The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (2006)

Re:The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (... by aet on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:05PM (#7207531)

This is shady, but artists should get paid if their work is heavily sampled.

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Re:The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (... by uvTwitch on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:11PM (#7207567)

If by "artists" you mean "people who buy the rights to the work created by artists for a pittance, and then use it to extort others attempting to create something worthwhile from it", then sure.

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Re:The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop (... by shock-value on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:29PM (#7207653)

Yes, and it's just as true in that case.

>attempting to create something worthwhile from it

You say that as though the sample itself is not worthwhile or valuable. There are plenty of modern songs for which the only reason they are popular or sound good is that they sample older tunes. And it's simply not easy to create a good-sounding, catchy sample. So whoever owns it deserves to get paid, and it's no one's fault but the original artist if he or she sold off the rights to it for a pittance.

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