Kraftwerk's defeat in sampling lawsuit doesn't set a precedent

A court ruled in favor of the producer of a 1997 song that sampled the German group – but since every sampling case is subjective, it’s not a model for the futureWhere there’s a hit, runs the music business aphorism, there’s a writ. Yet in a long-running legal dispute in the German courts over a relatively minor song by an equally minor local artist, it was one of the country’s most culturally significant groups that came out defeated. The 1997 song Nur Mir by ...

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