Re: Bill Clinton Samples?


Dennis (dennis@leksell-data.se)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:46:13 +0200



I used the famous "I experimented with mariujana a time or two and I didn't
like it - and I didnīt inhale" (eeh...no wonder he didn't like it...) on a
track that I put up on mp3.com:
http://www.mp3.com/artists/41/daphunkosaurus.html
and I was sorta wondering wether they would approve the song or not. They did,
but I'm not sure that it sheds any light on the copyright/legal
protection-issue.

Moonlight wrote:

> Just heard the sample of Bill Clinton saying "Multi Ethnic Multi Racial
> Democracy in Human History" on David Holmes's "Let's Get Killed."
>
> I'm surprised I've never heard more Bill Clinton samples. Does anyone know
> of any others? I'd really like a nice housey track with contradicting
> samples from the whole Lewinsky thing: "I did not have sexual relations
> with that woman" etc.
>
> Are these politician's speech protected or covered by any copyright? You'd
> think musicians, especially sample-weilding ones such as our current crops
> of stars would be really into that.
>
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