I know sampling is a tired subject but I have some..well legal type questions I guess. Anyway I could use some advise.
Basically the deal is that I was all set to sample some classical and musique concrete albums for this album I'm doing when I realized that my record label is kind of picky about sampling. But in a good way -as in the tracks could end up in some other sort of media like a video game or a commercial. So obvious samples need to be cleared. But what is obvious? Would some Xenakis drums ever be recognized?
So far the label has had to clear one sample for an artist which was no problem but now I'm a little bit scared to sample the likes of Walter Carlos or John Cage without letting them know. Sure I could sneak this stuff past the label easily enough because these are obscure records or whatever but with my luck John Cage himself will be settling down for the evening, climes into bed and turns on the TV only to see some Isuzu commercial with his music being toyed with in the soundtrack!
Of course some stuff will be so cut up and processed that it wont matter but some samples might have a length issue. Like a string section or a drum break.
I know that it is extremely unlikely that any one would ever spot these samples I'm thinking of(or that my music would end up in a commercial) but my label has got me quite paranoid.
All thoughts appreciated.
Basically the deal is that I was all set to sample some classical and musique concrete albums for this album I'm doing when I realized that my record label is kind of picky about sampling. But in a good way -as in the tracks could end up in some other sort of media like a video game or a commercial. So obvious samples need to be cleared. But what is obvious? Would some Xenakis drums ever be recognized?
So far the label has had to clear one sample for an artist which was no problem but now I'm a little bit scared to sample the likes of Walter Carlos or John Cage without letting them know. Sure I could sneak this stuff past the label easily enough because these are obscure records or whatever but with my luck John Cage himself will be settling down for the evening, climes into bed and turns on the TV only to see some Isuzu commercial with his music being toyed with in the soundtrack!
Of course some stuff will be so cut up and processed that it wont matter but some samples might have a length issue. Like a string section or a drum break.
I know that it is extremely unlikely that any one would ever spot these samples I'm thinking of(or that my music would end up in a commercial) but my label has got me quite paranoid.
All thoughts appreciated.
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