RIAA, newspapers ask Trump to limit fair use, toughen copyright | Ars Technica: "President-elect Donald Trump is meeting today with some of Silicon Valley's top business leaders. Ahead of that meeting, content companies sent letters letting Trump know that they're hoping to see some changes to copyright laws in the near future—changes that technology companies, large and small, are likely to object to."

It's appalling how much copyrighted music is on YouTube gathering ad revenue for random uploaders. Especially when the audio fingerprinting tech is available to prevent it.

Labels: sampling

Kraftwerk loses hip-hop music-sampling copyright case | Ars Technica: "“This is an important decision by the German Constitutional Court and a sensible one,” German Pirate Party MEP, Julia Reda, told Ars."

I would never pass up a chance to quote the German Pirate Party.

Labels: copyright, deutschland, germany, sampling

This season, a notorious pirate gives the music industry an expensive gift | Ars Technica Sunde's point is obviously a satirical one—he knows that he's not really costing the music industry that much money by copying a bunch of files to /dev/null. But he wants to draw people's attention to the absurd claims made by copyright holders who are "putting a value to a copy," and trying to prevent people from sharing the music they love.

Double take rubberneck on this one.

Labels: bittorrent, sampling

Wearable recorder keeps your mic close at hand | Cult of Mac Worn like a smartwatch, the Kapture takes in the sounds within a five-foot radius of you, continuously recording on a 60-second loop. Should you enter a verbal agreement with someone or hear something worth saving, like an infant’s first word or an inspirational gem from your grandmother, tap the face of the Kapture device to save the last minute of audio.

I'll sample that.

Labels: producing, recording, sampling

Watch How Daft Punk ‘Could’ Have Flipped The Sample To “One More Time” – EDM News | Magnetic Magazine - While Daft Punk denies sampling “More Spell on You” by Eddie Johns on “One More Time”, it becomes pretty apparent something’s not legit after watching this Youtube video. It’s called “Daft Punk – One More Time : Sampled Recreation Rundown” and it’s on Sadowick Productions’ channel.

Sampling those murky waters.

Labels: legal, sampling