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recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Fri May 22, 2020 9:20 am

My music doesn't use any vocals but sometimes I rip some speech bits from youtube, like sci fi movie quotes, or some sсientific talks and the like and include them into my tracks. I've been told that if I release my tracks via a label this can cause problems, e.g. if I can't present some kind of proof that the samples are not copyrighted the track may be not admitted at Beatport.

How do I know that the speech/voice sampels are free to use (unless they come from sample libraries or stock sites where this is explicitly stated)?

And what steps do I take to "clear" the samples I've made myself (I guess it's barely possible for a regular bloke like me if I sample quotes from a Hollywood movie, but if the original video is distributed under Creative Commons and the like)

E.g. Al Pacino's Devil's Advocate quote "Look, but don’t touch, touch, but don’t taste... I'm a fan of man" appeared at numerous commercially released tarcks by some big artists, how do they do that? Or they just don't care?

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri May 22, 2020 10:47 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profil ... G/sampling

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Fri May 22, 2020 11:05 am

Thanks

The links says

BBC wrote:Fri May 22, 2020 10:47 am That's reflected in the extremely small number of records that you hear using samples of film and TV dialogue. If it were easy, a lot more people would be doing it.

But it fact I hear film quotes in lots of commerical tracks (psytrance), films such as Devil's Advocate (E-Clip and Symbolic - Live Your Life), Animatrix (Protoculture - Out of Reality, Tristate - Artifical Mind), it's not some short phrases but really long meaningful quotes and dialogues.

I wonder if there might be some library of pre-cleared movie sampels or something.

Forgotten · Post by **Forgotten** » Fri May 22, 2020 12:52 pm

I doubt that samples would be cleared before the context of use is known, but also I assume that clearance goes hand in hand with arranging for payment to use the sample.

reborn579 · Post by **reborn579** » Tue May 26, 2020 2:15 pm

you won't be able to just use samples from youtube. but there's a cool website created by the library of congress of the us of all things. check it out. https://www.musictech.net/news/library- ... itizen-dj/

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Tue May 26, 2020 2:47 pm

reborn579 wrote: Tue May 26, 2020 2:15 pm you won't be able to just use samples from youtube. but there's a cool website created by the library of congress of the us of all things. check it out. https://www.musictech.net/news/library- ... itizen-dj/

Awesome, thanks a lot

Ripping speech samples from Youtube etc - legal questions