Skull Snaps Sue Tame Impala
TheKindCromang
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http://pitchfork.com/news/60872-tame-impala-threatened-with-lawsuit-over-eventually/
At first listen I was dubious but if you make it all the way to the end of the song there's the New Day break pretty much unaltered
At first listen I was dubious but if you make it all the way to the end of the song there's the New Day break pretty much unaltered
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Yeah, there's only two bars where it sounds similar IMO
If you loop up slut breaks, then you might get burned.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Glad Im not a musicologist !
this isn't the first time Skull Snaps has sued someone over "New Day" where the song wasn't sampled at all, so it's not surprising.
there is one bar that is identical in terms of the pattern. this has, up until now, not been considered copyright-able.
I'll be interested to see how it turns out, but it's bullshit... in my humble op
- spidey
^^^^^^^
Something Jamaica has known for decades
The same issue is being put to the test in Black Heat's lawsuit against Dr. Luke for a replay of the "Zimba Ku" break in a Jessie J song.
Even if it turns out Tame Impala chopped the sample and bounced it around the pads (which is what it sounded like to me on first listen), there is no way in hell you can make a substantiality argument for the use.
I went to a small party like ten people and the host encouraged people to bring "vinyl. Some dude brought Lonerism and played a side (ehh?)... Then he brought up the lawsuit and couldn't remember the band. "Oh that's the Skull Snaps" I said. Silence, no one had heard of them.
The theoretical "upside" to an artist being sampled is that their musical reach and the number of people aware of said artist would then be expanded. Half the shit I listen to today is because it was mentioned in liner notes of the artists who sampled those records. Then again, all of those samples were cleared, but even beyond that there was an interest to discover the ones that weren't mentioned. Has that interest in hearing and finding out about the original artists also gone the way of liner notes and physical formats?
Its only certain people that are interested in or get some kind of joy from hearing the original source or artists work.