Samples used on AJ compilation??

Marc Wright (mw@eis.net.au)
Thu, 09 Jan 1997 22:27:06 +1000


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Hi all,

Here I am, all excited about polishing up my submission for the
compilation, but I could have found myself a potential stumbling block.

On my track, I use a couple of obscure, but uncleared samples.

Now, they're not actually music samples - one is from the beginning of
any XXXXXXX song - XXXX (I think), yelling out XXXX. Another is XXXX
XXX screaming from the start of The XXXXXXX 'XX XXXX', another is from my
2 year-old son's toy XXXXXXXXX which says 'Let's Fly'.

Are these things I should try and get clearance for? And if so, how do
you go about it? I imagine The XXXXXX and The XXXXXXX would be the ones
to worry about - but, I could be wrong - I don't want to get sued by
XXXXX the XXXXXXXXXX. Can someone who has been thru' all this give me
some advice?

And on a related subject - are we opening ourselves up to potential
legal hassles if uncleared samples are used on the compilation?

I don't really want to remove them, but I also don't want to spend next
Christmas in jail. :)

Marc.