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Hi there everybody.. see I was just listening to some modern day records and after messing around a bit I was just wondering. How legal is it to chop a sample from say Jay-z or 2Pac or whatever other musician?

When is a sample okey to use and when it's not? I mean, all those ancient jazz or classic LPs are used all the time for samples, baselines and melodies... where's the line that you can't cross so to speak hehehe?

where's the line that you can't cross so to speak hehehe?

-legally you cant sample anything copywritten without permission.



but producer/diggin ethical expectations vary - just as long as something is used creatively then its good to me. Oh yeah, stealling drums from a hip hop or electronic music is weak.

juxt wrote:-legally you cant sample anything copywritten without permission.

Okey, so basically you need to make sure that it's not that noticeable that it was copied... I mean, who's going to hear that I've used a split second of a melody line and turned it into a snare... though at the moment I also have a really cool sample reversed. That one will be easy to find out from which song it comes when you reverse it back again.....

Yeah, I won't steal beats, it's pointless if you want to create your own feel in a song..