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November 20, 2008

Court rules against Kraftwerk in sampling case...

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Kraftwerk were dealt a blow by Germany’s high court today (November 20) in lawsuit determining whether artists should have the right to sample other bands’ music without infringing on copyright.

In the ruling issued today, the high court overturned an earlier ruling by Hamburg state court in Kraftwerk’s favour stating that reusing even the shortest snippet of a song was considered copyright infringement.

Kraftwerk sued rap producer Moses Pelham for sampling two seconds of their 1977 song ‘Metal On Metal’ in the track ‘Nur Mir’ by Sabrina Setlur.


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