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Do you believe that music made from samples is not original?
by Eisenstein 1y ago
Do you believe that music made from samples is not original?
- yardie 1y agoMost of the courts don’t think they are. Early rap beats used lots of samples. Some of the most popular hip hop songs made $0 for the artists as they had to pay royalties on those samples.
- Eisenstein 1y agoMost synthesizers use sampled instruments.
- yardie 1y agoAnd those sampled instruments were copyrighted by the manufacturers: YamahaGS, RolandXM, Alesis, Korg, etc. Early hip-hop were sampling disco and R&B records and got roundly slapped once they become popular for money to be involved.
- Eisenstein 1y agoThat doesn't answer the question if music composed of samples is considered original, though. It is merely a legal ruling about some music from a certain time period that a lot of people would consider original.
- ndriscoll 1y agoNo one cares about what the law thinks about art though, particularly for personal consumption or sharing with a small group. Copyright law doesn't even pretend to be slightly just or aligned with reality.
- Ygg2 1y agoI could see that remixes are partially original. But you're not even doing the remixing; the LLMs are.
- ben_w 1y agoIndeed. Text rather than music, but same argument applies: Based on what I've seen Charlie Stross blog on the topic of why he doesn't self publish/the value-add of a publisher, any creativity on the part of the prompter* of an LLM is analogous to the creativity on the part of a publisher, not on the part of an author. * at least for users who don't just use AI output to get past writer's block; there's lots of different ways to use AI