Kraftwerk Copywronged!
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Germany's highest civil court has dealt Kraftwerk a blow in ruling that sampling music does not in principle violate copyright.
Today's decision overturns an earlier ruling in Kraftwerk's favor that said reusing even the
shortest bit of a song infringed on copyright.
The
civil court ruling, however, forbids sampling of a song melody and
insists that the sample must be part of a completely new musical work
bearing no resemblance to the original.
Kraftwerk
had sued German rap producer Moses Pelham for using a two-second sample
from their 1977 track "Metal on Metal" in the rhythm sequence in the
song "Nur Mir" by Sabrina Setlur that appeared in 1997.
So Kraftwerk going to go after The Thompson Twins next for the recognizable sample from “The Robots” track that they used in their “Come Inside (Feedback Max Remix)” track?
Lame.
See my blog entry about the sample I discovered when working on a mashup:
http://qubicmx.blogspot.com/2008/03/feedback-inside-robots.html