[PD-ot] Art: To GPL or not to GPL?

[RTaylor]

The label "Frank Barknecht" hathe been affixed to this message,

>Sampling in pop was common, when "white men" "sampled" "black men's"
>music (Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Stones, Sinatra,...) and it became
>illegal, when that was tried to turn around (Biz Markie!).

 I don't see stealing entire songs as equivalent to sampling. I see sampling as
using a few notes or bars of an audio file {that don't actually retain any
significant part of the sampled songs structure} mixing it into other "samples"
and synthesizing something new from it.

>And then MJ bought the Beatles songs...
>
>Go figure...

You really gotta' wonder what he's done with them...
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Hiding inside, behind another door?
Is it only happiness you want?
Does wanting a feeling matter any more? {Mould}