No need to worry about “Legalizing It”, we sample-based artists are doing just fine thank you very much. Great album, nonetheless, and sampling still rocks the world. But then again, why would anyone *want* to press CDs these days? Freaking CD replicators demand proof of clearance these days, since technically they’re the ones making the copies and are the actual infringers in this case even though they only provide a service (interesting how Youtube avoids that somehow). Hell, a lot of places now want to actually see your release forms rather than taking your word for it.
#7 days to die library collapse license#
It’s even on Pandora, another stickler for proper license verification. (I know because I lied to get an album on Amazon). I know for a fact that those particular services won’t sell albums with uncleared samples.
#7 days to die library collapse verification#
I can’t find any verification yet, but *surely* the samples on this album have been cleared by now? It’s for sale in major online outlets like Amazon and iTunes. If the Library of Congress really wanted to honor that album, rather than listing it in the National Registry, how about fixing the law so that creativity of that nature is allowed to flow, rather than having it criminalized?įiled Under: copyright, de la soul, library of congress, national recording registry An album that couldn’t actually be released today. Copyright law has made it illegal (even if some still practice it, but not in the same manner as it was being done in the past - at least not “legally.”) And yet… here is the Library of Congress honoring just such an album. The Library of Congress is the home of the Copyright Office, who has done nothing helpful in terms of sample-based music. While the album still is out there, it’s effectively illegal, because the massive number of samples involved in the album can’t be cleared, and thus the band has had to use workarounds to rerelease any of the tracks.Ĭopycense also points out how utterly ridiculous this is. That album more or less changed the entire concept of sample-based hip hop music, because its success made the band a legal target. Now, this decision to honor that work set off some shocked responses from folks like Copycense, who quickly pointed out that there’s tremendous irony here. Among the works so honored this year is De La Soul’s classic first album, 3 Feet High and Rising.
Every year, the Library of Congress selects 25 recordings (music, spoken word, etc.) to honor by naming them to the National Recording Registry.
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