Davidson Potts on Remix and Sampling Copyright issues
Davidson Potts
Remix and Sampling Copyright issues
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 Also, as a DJ myself, I've seen this throughout the industry, and I use a lot of these remixes that come out.
- 0:07 But the thing is that when people are using them, they're for free downloads, and it's not like they're publishing them for money.
- 0:15 If it comes to the point where they publish it for money, that's the point.
- 0:19 Or if they publish it for money without their copyright or signing with the label and getting authorization by that artist or DJ, that's the point when there becomes a lawsuit and DJs get thrown in a bus.
- 0:31 It's a very rare case because almost anything that gets posted to SoundCloud or these platforms that is not copyrighted almost instantaneously gets taken down, as I've done myself as I've produced music and posted a song that was not mine, and instantly it was taken down.
- 0:46 So it's a very strict industry today, but the remixes are absolutely thriving as you've talked about.
- 0:52 But it's cool to see what's going on in the DJ industry and how artists will go back and play those songs of those remixes and support them.
- 1:00 It's all support, but it comes to the point when it it's all about money.
- 1:04 Everything's all about money, and that's just another instance of it.