US EditionEU Court Considers Long-Running Kraftwerk Plagiarism Dispute Dating Back to 1997
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The dispute of the electric band Kraftwerk with rapper Moses Pelham lasts more than 20 years by two seconds Music: The highest European court now describes when music sampling is allowed as a »pastiche«.
For 27 years, the electric band Kraftwerk and the producer Moses Pelham have been arguing in court. Now, in a further decision, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has lowered the hurdles for the so-called sampling. By Max Bauer.
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European Justice defines pastiche as a creation that evokes one or several works, differentiating from them in a perceptible way, and that use elements characteristic of those songs, also through 'sampling', in order to engage in an artistic dialogue.Now the German magistrates will have to decide if Pelham's work that uses two seconds of a Kraftwerk song is a pastiche What explains Rosalía's confessional of viral concerts for the time of TikTok …
The European rule on whether samples need to be cleared moves to a “maybe” with latest Kraftwerk ruling
The copyright rules around sampling recordings in Europe have just changed thanks to a new ruling in a legal dispute that’s been rumbling on for more than two decades, between German music producer Moses Pelham and the mighty Kraftwerk. That dispute relates to Pelham’s 1997 track ‘Nur Mir’ - which sampled Kraftwerk’s 1977 classic ‘Metal On Metal’ - and centres on this all important question: do you need permission if you sample a tiny snippet o…
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