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| quote: | Originally posted by G-Con
Technically maybe its illegal, but if the part you have sampled is very small and then on top of this you add FX etc to it then I don't think anyone would ever know whre you got the sample from and I for one wouldn't bother to get permission |
If you listen to White Room - White Room from Andy Moor, you can tell that its just the vocals from BT - Remember chopped up and used in that song.
I must have listened to White Room 10 times before I realized thats where he got the vocals. I probably wouldn't have even recognized them after that, had I not listened to Remember about a million times (PVD mix still one of my favs).
However, it is still technically illegal, so if you want to keep yourself completely covered, then you may want see if you can find a set of royalty-free vocal sample CD's and just chop those vocals up.
Sometimes a bootleg remix like that can be wildly popular as well, although it better be a REALLY good track to achieve that status. You are taking a massive risk, but it may end up working out in the end. I have heard from a LOT of people that Prydz certainly didn't get Steve Winwoods' permission before writing Call On Me. The thing about that is if the track proves to be in demand, then its probably going to be easier to get clearence, albiet more expensive.
It's still very hard to find an original copy of Prodigy - Full Throttle, because they got in trouble for the Star Wars sample, and Scott Hardkiss - Phoenix sampled ELO illegially, so thats even harder to find.
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