[Rumori] 3 Notes and Runnin': Call for Submissions
Michael Bell-Smith
mike at burncopy.com
Sun Sep 19 18:39:57 PDT 2004
Michael Bell-Smith and Downhill Battle are currently seeking
submissions for 3 Notes and Runnin’, an online music compilation
commemorating and protesting The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling
in Case No. 01-00412.
In the case, the court found that NWA violated copyright law when they
sampled 3 notes of a guitar riff from Funkadelic’s “Get off Your Ass
and Jam” for their song “100 Miles and Runnin’". The ruling reversed a
district court finding that because “no reasonable juror, even one
familiar with the works of George Clinton, would recognize the source
of the sample without having been told of its source", sampling
clearance should not be required.
In doing so, the court broke from decades of established sample
practice by ruling that all samples, regardless of how heavily
manipulated or unrecognizable they may be, are subject either to
“clearance” (obtaining permission for use of the sample, usually in
exchange for money) or litigation.
To protest this decision, we are creating a forum for sample-based
musicians and artists to share their own 30 second songs which have
been created using only the sample in question. By doing so, we hope to
showcase the potential and diversity of sample based music and sound
art, and to call into question the relationship between a sample and
its use.
All submissions to the compilation will be posted on the 3 Notes and
Runnin' site as they are received.
The project (along with more info) can be found at:
http://downhillbattle.org/3notes/
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