A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample

svantana•about 2 hours ago

It's ironic that the sample is blended with two other well known drum loops that most likely were not cleared either. From what I understand, drum samples are rarely cleared because they don't contain "music" in the traditional sense of music = melody + lyrics.

glenngillen•about 2 hours ago

I can’t remember who they were talking about now, but I was listening to a podcast recently that had Questlove (drummer from The Roots) and he was retelling about the first time he met someone. As part of the intro he said something like “of course I know you, you sampled me on <track>” and then he laughed at their shock because they absolutely had not cleared the sample and he was just “hey, it’s alright. We’re cool”.

But it was wild to me to think that in the middle of a track there’s like a 2-3 sec bit of percussion and he can (correctly!) go “hey, that’s me!”. It wasn’t some looping thing throughout the song. Just a single sample. And he knew it was him playing it!

slim•about 1 hour ago

because he probably sampled it himself from another source and spent hours researching the original source and similar breaks then spent hours piling layers of sound and effects on these 2s. So he knows exactly which one is theirs

bilekas•about 2 hours ago

European bureaucracy is famously slow and the red tape can be extremely overwhelming and really hinders innovation at times, but this is another level. I wonder after so many years of this seemingly trivial 2 seconds, how interested both sides actually cared or if it was more of a novelty / precedent thing.

ButlerianJihad•about 1 hour ago

For comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break (used in thousands of tracks; zero royalties)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sampled_drum_breaks

phishin•12 minutes ago

This has to be the best drum sample of all time.

A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample

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