Guest Mr.@!#$ Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 just about every psy-artist have used samples from movies, usually a couple of secs long. question is - do u have to pay someone to use samples, or is it free/"free"? and if not, who u gotta pay? Mr.S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Elysium Project Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 Well to be honest it's not free. All use of copyrighted material (movies and movie clips incl. sound and speak) must be licensed and indeed paid for. But almost noone pay for it except for the big commercial names that can't risk getting a big time law-suit form the film company/producers. The underground producers rarely risk anything since the filmmakers don't bother to use money on law-suits. They wouldn't get a dime out of it in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bugbread Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 Don't get the wrong idea: you don't need the permission of the copyright holder to sample things for review purposes (for example, putting a short sample of Keanu Reeve's speech on a movie page reviewing how bad the acting was) as it falls under the "fair use" provision. However, since using samples in music is both for commercial intent and not serving as a review or educational material, you would have to pay for it. Copyrights are generally not as all-encompassing as the owners would like to think, but they are pretty tight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest buggy Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 the only time they'd really care is if the track made money and trance artists i don't think make asignificant enough amount of money on their tracks for the movie producers to give a @!#$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouroboros Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 doesnt it also depend on the length of the sample? i mean really... i hardly think ridley scott is getting or could get any money from the 1400000000000000000000000000000000000 blade runner samples out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bugbread Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 Well, he probably COULD, but since any such action would pretty much destroy the artist financially and only bring him a few dollars as a result, it's not worth it to him (or any of the Matrix crew either, for that sake). The most frequent use of copyright law in music samples tends to be crushing artists who steal the whole damn song as a sample (remember Vanilla Ice versus Queen?) or who use the sample in a way that really really pisses off the maker of the original (tracks which sample Little Mermaid to turn it into a porn funk song, for example). Still, doesn't happen often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suarajana Posted May 3, 2002 Share Posted May 3, 2002 here ya go: if you use spoken word from a movie, TV show, etc....and someone recognized it, (and most importantly-->took you to court for 'stealing' it) they'd play the source (Keanu) for a jury and then play your song, if the jury agreed you stole it, you'd have to pay a fine based on how much money your track made. please note: hollywood producers rarely go to raves. ravers rarely report copywright infringements to the feds The ones people wonder about are the musical samples. same thing: a jury would have to agree you took the melody. just put a credit on your cd sleeve and you'll be okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr.Shite Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 Thanx Guys! Just what i wuz lookin for. now that i have overcome this nasty barrier, i'll be releasing albums & 12"s every month. (maybe a year or two from now, but wottevvah...) So watch out! -Mr.S- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KS Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 but it also depends what country the label is based in... a producer sitting say in india would not care, since the indian court doen't clamp down on such things... so its also a matter of country laws... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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