Re: [LAU] hip hop / making beats

From: Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ <gordonjcp@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 11:25:50 EEST

Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:

> Be aware, though, if your music gains momentum you might experience that
> the fellow hiphopers you took samples from demand royalties for the
> samples used. Even more so with 70s/funk/etc artists who don't realise
> that the main reason they're still selling records is that they're being
> sampled. You can solve this problem by only using samples from works
> with permitive licensing, for example one of the Creative Commons licenses.
>
> To me I realise my music is illegal, so that's why I've called the
> collection "Illegal Musikk", and I'm ready to take any consequences of
> that - call it art ;)

All of my samples and tracks are under the WTFPL, with the rider that if
you use my work in whole or part I want to be credited. If you make a
million-selling record and become very rich, you can pay my electric
bill or something. Or buy me some beer.

Gordon

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