The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
by
Kembrew McLeod, Peter DiCola, Jenny Toomey
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other musicians’...