On Sept. 14th Jeff posted a comment to Downloading is NOT Illegal containing a link about The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Case No. 01-00412. The court found that NWA violated copyright law when they sampled 3 notes of a guitar riff from Funkadelic’s “Get off Your Ass and Jam” for their song “100 Miles and Runnin’”. One of my favorite activist sites is already fighting the ruling.

To protest this decision, we are creating a forum for sample-based musicians and artists to share their own 30 second songs which have been created using only the sample in question. By doing so, we hope to showcase the potential and diversity of sample based music and sound art, and to call into question the relationship between a sample and its use.

Excerpt from Three Notes and Running, another great DownHillBattle.org project!

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