So better to use sample cds then right?

Do you need to specify what samlpe CD you took samples from, or is that being anal?

What if you owned the Sample CD at the time of recording, but then sold it later, does that revoke your right to use the sample?

Thanks.



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It all depends on what the licensing agreement on the sample CD says. I only own one sample CD set that insists that it be listed on the credits, "Percussive Adventures." As for buying/selling sample CDs secondhand, again, rules change from publisher to publisher, but generally one is prohibited from using secondhand sample CDs. Many of them also say that the original owner is the only person entitled to use those samples. But again, check the specific CD license agreement to be 100% certain.

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quote: Original post by haribo
I agree with everything edlima just said - I''m doing an Audio Technology degree and had to sit though a module of Sampling and the Law, British law is smiliar to the USA''s in this instance.

Although usally you''ll get a letter threatening hell. Nothing will come of it if you remove the samples before a cutoff date, unless you were making money off it, in which case persuing you becomes profitable.

And *don''t* use old recording that you think no one will remember - they do...

That''s what I remember too. All those house records from the 80''s and early 90''s used samples, often half a second of a trumpet sound of an old soul record, a ''wheeah'' from james brown, a drum sample, and sometimes records were delayed while a sample was replaced because there was no permission. You had to pay, even for quarter seconds.

That''s why it surprised me that nowadays songs like ''millenium'' by robbie williams rips a whole nancy sinatra song, rap records nowadays seem to be some loser like puff daddy mumbling over an old Police record, and calling it his own.

But I doubt those laws were changed, they only seem to be getting more strict.