[LAU] hip hop / making beats

[drew Roberts]

On Monday 13 October 2008 08:53:36 Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:
> Be aware, though, if your music gains momentum you might experience that
> the fellow hiphopers you took samples from demand royalties for the
> samples used. Even more so with 70s/funk/etc artists who don't realise
> that the main reason they're still selling records is that they're being
> sampled. You can solve this problem by only using samples from works
> with permitive licensing, for example one of the Creative Commons licenses.

That can still get you into trouble. You ought to be OK with BY and BY-SA 
licenses as long as you follow the licenses. Anything with NC in it can still 
result in demands for royalties. (And the others if you don't follow the 
requirements of the licenses you have.)
>
> To me I realise my music is illegal, so that's why I've called the
> collection "Illegal Musikk", and I'm ready to take any consequences of
> that - call it art ;)

all the best,

drew