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I am actually thinking of focusing my project on music sampling and how artists get permission to sample various songs. This website is cool because it gives you a list of different songs that have been sampled in the past. Some songs I had no idea were samples, I thought they were original songs.

Lovers of offbeat music and hard-core rap would probably never use the names "Weird Al Yankovic" and "2 Live Crew" in the same sentence. Yet, they have something very important in common. The law protects their use of other people's musical works. The reason is that courts consider both 2 Live Crew's rap combined with pop music riffs and Weird Al's combination of everything... to be parodies, which are protected under fair use doctrine. from LegalZoom.com

This "Copyright Information Services" site, gives a basic explanation of music sampling laws. It also gives the rates which musicians will have to pay to legally be able to sample another musicians music.

Party with the best. Our music is updated daily. A music site like pandora.com but these numerous playlists have already been compiled and viewers can add their own playlists as well

This article explains how the music industry is suffering from the internet allowing music to be listened to or downloaded to your computer free.

This site give an overview of music sampling laws, including publishing, copyright and contracts.

Steve Albini is an infamous record producer, perhaps most famous for his work with Nirvana on their album "in Utero". This article outlines the methods record companies use to seduce rock bands, essentially making them slaves of the industry. Albini represents the many ways in which the music industry is changing to meet customer and artist needs, considering the recent explosion of file sharing.

This might be interesting to those of you who are doing research projects on music copyright laws/ parodys, etc. I suggest watching Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" music video before watching this if you haven't already, otherwise, it's not as funny.

I had actually never watched the full video of "Bad Romance" and I loved it and the remake. I thought it was really creative... thanks for posting!

This article looks at previous copyright infringement cases based on music sampling as well as different aspects of music sampling and their laws.

This opinion site relates well to my topic; what constitutes music sampling. Musicians are trying to get money from other musicians for copyright infringement... but sometimes it is only two notes that they say were copied. How does court rule out the real copyright infringement cases from the cases that are just musicians trying to make a few extra bucks.

this allows you to listen to music on the internet free of charge.

Another documentary called GOOD COPY BAD COPY that deals with issues surrounding music copyright, sampling, and intellectual property.

The ways in which the popular print press in Spain is trying to spread popular music into national media. Interesting insight.

Considering our brief discussion about copyrighted material, I thought this link might provide an interesting perspective. Negativeland is a group of 'musicians' who splice copyrighted material together to create songs. They have faced a number of lawsuits, but continue to produce music despite widespread criticism.

Desribes in detail the 4 factors of Fair Use as well as mentioning music cases and law suits regarding parodies.

gives a list of reasons why they are so popular.. easy to use free (in most cases with the most popular ones) different formats perks of being a member (free web page, music, meeting people)

This is an interesting way to view the news of the past year. This site offers pictures, music and audio and text commentary on the pictures.

A mashup artist that combines multiple songs to create each of his tracks. This is different than DJing. On average, he uses 21 songs for each one of his. His performances are featured in the documentary I posted earlier, "RIP: A Remix Manifesto". It's interesting to look at his music as a prime example of postmodernism and what that all means in terms of copyright infringement.

EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet.