Friday, July 4, 2008

Sampling without permission in the Indian Music industry

Sampling, beleive it or not, is one of the biggest hurdles/barricades in the Indian Music industry. Majority of the sampling is based off of raw hip hop r&b beats from the western mainstream music genre. However, majority of the sampling by artists in the Indian Music industry is without permission, thus, the term is used as infringing on copyrights. Loads of artists are doing this, however, as I have mentioned in one of my previous posts, when western mainstream artists do this, they get sued for ridiculous amounts, and when Indian Music artists do this, they get released worldwide. One major artist of such that has ALWAYS infringed on copyrights from the western music industry is North America's DJ Sanj, although he now lives in the U.K. He has released beats with Dr. Dre sample that made it onto one of his albums which was released by Music Waves in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. The album was titled Master Of Destiny. Music Waves, regards itself as the main premier label that is fair and refuses the business of piracy and in their own sense, is the 'right' record label. How can you condone a release with a Dr. Dre sample all over it, and pass it on as an original recording? Not fair is it? Nope, not at all. However, Dr. Dre does not have time to look out for these chump change artists like this, however, he should go directly for Music Waves and sue them for everything they have got. Just an idea to promote sampling not only in the Indian Music industry, but in all music genres around the world.