From Jeremy Axon Sent Thu, Sep 10th 1998, 20:20
From Jeremy Axon Sent Thu, Sep 10th 1998, 20:20
It seems to me that the problem here isn't at all about samples, but about SST not giving Negativland money they should be getting, which would piss me off, too.... np: Negativland: (the song they got in trouble for, whatever it;s called :) At 08:30 AM 10 - 09 - 1998 +0000, you wrote: >I thought after all of Negativland's recent sloganeering about fair us" and >such, the following article from the 9/9/98 edition of Allstar News puts >this group of "radicals" in the proper light. If it were April Fool's Day, >this would all make sense. Dilettantes... > >Negativland -- the outspoken outfit against paying rights for samples -- >sent out a cranky press release Tuesday (Sept. 1) complaining about Fatboy >Slim's use of one of their samples in the song "Michael Jackson" in a Coke >commercial. While Negativland believes people shouldn't have to pay to >sample others, they're not too happy that their work ended up in a Coke >spot. But, the thing is, it didn't. Only the instrumental part of "Michael >Jackson," which is on Fatboy Slim's 1997 album Better Living Through >Chemistry, is used in the spot. The song samples from Negativland's own >"Michael Jackson" from their 1987 SST album Escape from Noise. And while >Fatboy Slim did pay SST ($1000) for permission to use the sample, >Negativland claims SST is keeping the money for themselves, though, adds >that the group would've given it to them for free anyway (again, that's >their thing). The sample in question was actually stolen by a Negativland >member from the basement of a church in Concord, Calif. in the '70s. Fatboy >Slim's label, Astralwerks, had no comment. And, seeing that Fatboy Slim (aka >Norman Cook) is a big fan of Negativland, we're sure the release (which >states that he "stupidly" went to SST Records to get permission to use the >sample) would upset him a bit. The Coke spot starts airing on television >Sept. 7 for three months and is part of a major NFL campaign, which includes >a contest to send people to the Super Bowl.. > - =========HEXAGON LABS CLOTHING=========== jeremy[x]axon http://come.to/rewind.html breeyn[e]mccarney massive redesign underway broccoli[fat]cat #7 1 havelock toronto on. ca.