Original Post from Marty Denson
Being involved in the music industry for nearly 34 years and the printing industry for 21 years, copyright issues have always been an important part of everyday conversation for me. The documentary “Good Copy/Bad Copy” is yet another look at the evolving issues and changes regarding copyright laws. The documentary enlightened me as to just how far the concepts of audio sampling has reached. While these individuals have demonstrated creativity with their “Techno Brega” style of manipulating the original works of others, I honestly believe that it is really just form of creative theft. It appears as though the individuals in the documentary clearly recognize that what they are doing is illegal, however, the ways to police this kind of copyright infringement is extremely difficult. Furthermore, I have noticed that the majority of those who practice the art of sampling do not possess any real musical skills and are left with no other alternative but to use other people’s works without permission rather than be original.
My Reply
Marty, I have to disagree with you. It takes a lot of insight and skill to mix different styles of much together and make it work. I don't understand how you can say that requires no music skill. To be honest, all music is a sample of something. There has been so many centuries of music original ideas are rare anymore. Hip Hop today samples quite a bit. Just because it may not be legal (yet) doesn't mean it doesn't require special artistic skills. How do you think rock, hip hop, country, any music came about...through the merging of many different forms of music and music evolution. Anyone can "remix" a song, but only a musical artist can create new, valuable work with a message to share. Also, Techno Brega is mainly in other countries where our American laws have no authority, if it is not illegal in their country, how are they breaking the law?
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