Are you breaking copyright if you chop up a sample?

[pico]

So many tunes use breaks from James Brown stuff for example.

But if you chop up the rhythm into something not resembling the original, is it ok to use it in a commercial release? Seems like that should be derivitive work and not actionable?

It seems there's a grey area there. Is it still different from the original if you only rearrange one kick drum hit for example?

I guess I'm wondering how much a sample needs to be modified to make it....well...legal to use.

Well..... a while ago i chopped a sample from a artist, rearranged it, thought they could not hear it.
Released it, and after a while we got a fax , or we had to pay a lot or a had to remove the record from the shops.
We chose the last option.


So are you breaking copyright if you chop up a sample?


Yes

[GIRO]

This TOPIC smells like pollution to me and to others I'm sure!
OLD and rotting the subject is!

AND the funny part of it is that the person that starts the thread, never replies!

I think he or she is having fun reading the replies!

SHAME ON YOU! THE ARE SO LITTLE MUSICIANS NOW DAYS! (a bunch of copy cats.)
DO YOUR OWN MUSIC YOU SILLY MAN!

Let this thread die!

HAPPY THANXGIVING!