Re: Samples and looping

[Milo <milo.vuc@gmail.com>]

No, it is not illegal to sample. What is illegal (and immoral) is to
use someone's work without asking for written permission. If you ask
the right person nicely, you will get the license 90% of the time. A
friend of mine recently obtained a license from a very famous movie
director, to use a sample from his latest movie. Guess what, he gave
his permission for free as long as the sample is not used in another
movie... :-)

On 8/26/09, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I see. Interesting.
>
> Well, I do looping in real time as well, but I do not record in real 
>time -
> at least, not yet. There are a lot of things which I find interesting
> in manipulating recorded sound. What I personally do not like about 
>overdub
> looping at the moment is that the only possible thing here is a build up.
> You record the first loop and as you record other loops over, this first
> loop will repeat and repeat and repeat. It is very difficult to make the
> arrangement varied.
> And you get a lot of lines which are there looped for too long a time.
>
> As for sampling, I personally sample both myself and from any sources,
> including the "copyrighted" things like movies and "commercial music".
> I do put that into brackets since I find it ridiculous that it is 
>illegal to
> sample. Sampling yourself is cool, but using a sample from, say, a movie,
> can
> bring extra special charm to the record. But that's me.
>
> Louigi.