Solchen Prozessen als Schaulustiger zuzusehen, kann amüsant bis diskutierwürdig sein, wie man hier sieht. Nicht minder interessant ist m.E. der Kompetenzblock, um was es dabei im Detail geht. Ist ja nicht falsch, wenn man nicht nur ultraflott auf den Tasten ist, wie die meisten hier, sondern auch noch beschlagen in allem, was das Musikbusiness an Know How zu bieten hat, wenns um die Mücken geht.
Wiki USA hat da was zu melden:
"Sample Clearance Services
Similar to companies that obtain mechanical licenses for licensees who wish to use musical compositions to make new sound recordings, sample clearance services obtain licenses to clear the rights involved with using a sample. Clearance services can obtain sample license offers on behalf of independent artists and producers who utilize samples in their "new works," or on behalf of record labels who plan to distribute their "new works." "New work" refers to the new musical composition and sound recording which utilizes a sample from another work. Note that a music sample contains two separate copyrighted works. One is the original sound recording, and the other is the underlying musical composition.
Sample clearance companies can be a very cost effective way to clear samples, because it costs much more to hire an entertainment attorney to perform similar services. However, it is important to know that a sample clearance service is no replacement for a competent entertainment attorney with the additional ability to provide legal advice. Clearance services cannot perform this function unless run by an attorney.
Remember that sample clearance is a very important part of making an album containing samples a legally viable product. "Without proper clearance, the owners of the original work you sampled can sue for large sums of money or prevent distribution of your album."[12] It is important to recognize that "one sample may consist of 2 clearances (ie one master clearance & one publishing clearance)."[13] Often, sample clearance services are run by people with extensive experience in the music publishing industry or business affairs departments at record labels. Their prior experiences allow them to efficiently navigate the system, locate the rights holders and obtain proper sample license offers. However, an entertainment attorney is a must when tackling deeper issues involving legal advice that creators of "new works" may have never anticipated."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)
Diese Seite bietet eh einige einschlägige Infos aus dem praktischen Musikalltag.
Zwar unterscheidet sich das Recht in USA von dem in Deutschland, aber alleine der Aspekt, den er hier anspricht:
""[Samples have] a certain reality. It doesn't just take the sound, it takes the whole way it was recorded. The ambient sounds, the little bits of reverb left off crashes that happened a couple of bars ago. There's a lot of things in the sample, just like when you take a picture—it's got a lot more levels than say, the kick-drum or the drum machine, I think. [...] Looking at a sampler the way it was used first—to try and simulate real instruments—you didn't have to get a session guitarist and you could just be like, 'Hey, I can have an orchestra in my track, and I can have a guitar, and it sounds real!' And I think that's the wrong way to use sampling. The right way is to get the guitar, and go, 'Right, that's a guitar. Let's make it into something that a guitar could never possibly be.' You know, take it away from the source and try to make it something else. Might as well just get a bloody guitarist if you want a guitarist. There's plenty of them." —Amon Tobin"
Das ist schon abseits der oberflächlichen Betrachtung. Zwar finde ich im Falle Kraftwerk/Pelham viel Rauch um nichts, aber generell ist das auch eine Art Respekt, wenn man den ganzen Unterbau einer Produktion des Musikerkollegen zu schätzen weiß und ihm das Zeug eben
nicht unter dem Hintern wegzieht und für seine eigenen Tracks benutzt, ohne dessen Einverständnis.
Zudem finde ich spricht nichts dagegen, wenn ich Songfragmente eines Kollegen als nützlich für meinen ansehe und den dann halt kontakte und um Nutzungserlaubnis bitte. Also wirklich, wo ist das Problem dabei? Der freut sich vielleicht sogar versehentlich drüber. Mangelnde Kommunikation kann Folgeschäden nach sich ziehen und solche öden Prozesse in muffigen Gerichtssälen sind doch nun wirklich so ziemlich das Überflüssigste was es gibt. Außerdem, das weiß jeder, tun vor allem die Anwälte dran verdienen.
