Re: Sampling debate

["Thomas W¿hni" <hovard@online.no>]

>Here's an example: Let's say I start messing around with someone else's
>riff or tune on guitar.  As I play it, I start altering the notes, the
>accents, what have you.  After a few minutes, I've come up with a
>different (maybe a wildly different) riff.  Now, am I obligated to seek
>out the composer of the work I started playing and ask their permission
>to release the end result that I came up with, even if it's
>unrecognizable from the original source of inspiration?


No of course not. But now you are not using the audio(= hard work) of the 
original.
That`s the only thing copyright can protect: the final product. IF your 
riff sounds nothing like the original then what`s the problem? That what 
the law says (in effect). But if you sample the riff you`d obviously SOUND 
like the origanal and his work will be yours. And that`s wrong. I feel. In 
my opinion. Gimme a hug.

Yors , Thomas