Where does the line get drawn between copyright and creative use of music by a DJ or producer?
DJ’s will often now use looping and sampling facilities that are part of the digital mixing technologies as an advances performance tool to decks and hip-hop scratching and usage of sounds to create sounds as it was in days gone by. Is this the new hip-hop in a sense, where extracting small segments of music can become a whole new sound with flavors that the artist is feeling? Those that say it is only digital technology that has brought an onslaught of sampling need to look at the history of hip hop and be educated! Hip-hop and vinyl mixing and scratching was born out of hard times and long unemployment queues and introduced an innovative new art form that DJ’s used creatively in their sets alongside rapping MC’s in New York in the early 80’s. Sampling simply means recording of a sound in order to reproduce it and replay it and dates back to the early sixties when tape recordings were the tools for the job. When then, does the line of copyright get drawn, is it when that produced mate
