News: It's OK to sample Kraftwerk
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So says Germany's high court who ruled against the electronic music pioneers and in favour of other artists wanting to lift snippets of Kraftwerk's oeuvre. Coldplay have already done this, just a shame that they got permission from the Kling Klang residents before doing so.
A German high court has passed judgement on Kraftwerk by deciding that musical artists should have the right to sample other artists without impacting on copyright.
The ruling, which was passed yesterday (November 20th), supercedes an earlier ruling by the Hamburg state court which had sided with Kraftwerk by determining that copyright would be infringed if even...
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