maandag 10 oktober 2011

Better Safe Than Sampling

The former Danish duo, Djuma Sound System is pretty much ruined because of a ten second sample.

"Les Djiins was an old track from the trio and made them a handsome amount of money at the time when they were with EMI records.



But apparently they didn't told EMI they sampled the opening ten seconds from this track:



It was found out and was brought to court: 1 Million Kroner (183,160 dollar). It seems the music industry is getting less and less sympathetic over the years.

Read The Rest of the article here:

http://www.cphpost.dk/culture/culture/122-culture/52282-massive-fine-in-denmarks-first-ever-sampling-copyright-case.html

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