This is a game changer

[2GooD Productions]

Library of Congress launches open-source hip-hop sampling tool

The Library of Congress, led by "innovator in residence" Brian Foo, is launching an open-source hip-hop sample tool called Citizen DJ.

consequenceofsound.net

 

[Fade]

So they're going to be making public domain music available through an app pretty much?

 

[2GooD Productions]

yep, we should be able to start sampling the wizard of Oz in a few years hahahahaha

 

[drex]

eh, it's a start... public domain has been open forever tho, hasn't it?

 

[2GooD Productions]

yeah, public domain has always been there but it makes access to it so much easier.
This could open the door wide open for another era of sampling

 

[Fade]

It's a great idea for those that aren't aware of public domain, plus it will make things simpler. But for us cool people, pffft.

 

[drex]

it IS a step, but on the real.... samples should work like advances that get recouped and the rest gets enjoyed. If I revive some dead shit that wasnt makin any money and now everything about you is alive again earning revenue, why tF should I pay forever? it's like I paid old dude to do him a great favor. the law should be adjusted to make allowances for such instances.

 

[Fade]

I said something like that a while ago in an article about how sampling and the costs associated with it should have some sort of tier system. It just makes no sense if a bedroom producer is asked to pay the same amount a big name producer pays from the same artist and/or song. There's more to it than that, but that's where I'm going with it.

 

[2GooD Productions]

It started out pretty fair with clearance costs, if there were any at all. Then with the huge rise in hip hops popularity and the big companies like UMG buying up all the rights made things pretty fucking expensive.
It just needs to be a fair system, why penalise somebody who is hardly making any money from a sample. It stifles creativity.

 

[Fade]

I would like to see someone sample like crazy, not pay, then get taken to court, then go to San Quentin for life all because they want to stick it to the man. #sampling4life

 

[drex]

I'll write ya

 

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