sample cd's - origin and legality ?

[SampleScience]

Has anyone ever listened to Ueberschall's Loop Essentials?

My god, that this is so blatent I cant get over it. It even has the '50 Cent - In da Club' break on it, lol.

Out of curiosity I asked Ueberschall about that. They told me it was their break and that Fiddy had sampled it off them.

Thats pretty all you need to know Peteman.

TB

That's crazy! It's worst tham I thought!

[Mr. Tunes]

I'm just waiting for piano manufacturers to start suing for royalties from Piano sample collections

Hah yeah but multi-samples can serve as advertisement for the brand. Let's say you've always loved that Gretsch kit sample patch - you use it all the time. And then one day you decide you need a real kit in your studio, how about a Gretsch?

[tee boy]

Tell me about it. But you check that library, infact, dont bother just check the demo! They even used the 50 cent in the demo for christs sake.

Now, maybe they did clear it? But the fact that they fed me a load of bs would suggest not.

Basically, dance sample CD's are mostly vinyl samples. Sometimes tweaked, sometimes not. They are essentially like glorified crate digger CD's.

Ofcourse, this is great for some people! I myself keep a big stash of sampled hits that I use when need to make some dance drums and loops. But from the angle of legality... well, they are breaking probably every rule in the book.

But its like someone already said, making sample libraries is hard! If you had to make 2000 or more totally original dance samples, it would take some serious time and effort (assuming they were going to be good that is). And the price would have to be much higher.

TB

[peteman]

well I was just more like curious, not worrying too much of the legal stuff

[Stone]

Actually, both you, the user, and the sample CD company (depending on how they market and any license agreements) would be held liable. Them from the standpoint of selling material that did not belong to them in the first place. You for selling music using material that did not belong to you in the first place. However the likelihood of such a scenario is rare, even in the commercial market unless it's an issue of large numbers which draws large attention. Of course there is the querky possibility that it could happen on small scales with indie artists, which is perhaps more damaging (indie artits are in alot of cases starving, so a financial blow like that would burry them).