Really good sampling takes just as much blood, sweat, and tears invested as the other skill sets you cite.
Oh, it's okay to leech off other people's work without compensating them, because I'm really good!
As for 'fair use', using the signature riff of a song is different from "10% of the prose" of an article. You're talking about the core identifiable part of a song, the hook itself.
In fact, many cultural icons are greatly reinforced by this kind of use.
If it's a fact, can you please cite a couple of examples that have been greatly reinforced by this kind of use? Because that really sounds like a throwaway weasel-word line to me.
> If it's a fact, can you please cite a couple of examples that have been greatly reinforced by this kind of use? Because that really sounds like a throwaway weasel-word line to me.
It is well understood in English circles that Shakespear, along with many authors, essentially plagiarized the stories of their plays and and twisted some parts to their own style but leaving the structure intact.
The entire genre of blues is based off slave songs from the American South, and the riffs and basic structure is the same for all the songs.
Rock came from the influence of blues, with a large portion of the most famous songs being straight out stolen from blues songs from the 20s and beggining of the 20th century.
Oh, it's okay to leech off other people's work without compensating them, because I'm really good!
As for 'fair use', using the signature riff of a song is different from "10% of the prose" of an article. You're talking about the core identifiable part of a song, the hook itself.
In fact, many cultural icons are greatly reinforced by this kind of use.
If it's a fact, can you please cite a couple of examples that have been greatly reinforced by this kind of use? Because that really sounds like a throwaway weasel-word line to me.