User talk:SingDarlene

I'm creating this talk page to share information on the business of the music business. I pose a question to all- how much of the business do we really know? Welcome folks to my small corner of the world. As I edit the newsletters for my music community paper I wonder how lost are the artist that love this business so well? The information I put out is to assist anyone yas in a small fashion, but perhaps a beneficial one.A recent controversy among musicians and members of the music industry has concerned the technique of "sampling," which is an important tool for many artists and producers of hip-hop music. Sampling involves the transfer of an audio segment from an original recording onto a new recording. Many claim that, because this technique makes use of prerecorded materials, the audio segment, therefore, should remain the "property" of the original artist. Others contend that sampling involves such a fundamental and significant reinterpretation of the music that it can no longer be understood as the original artist’s property in any traditional sense. Our project looks at the sampling controversy from the perspective of political theory. There are several different ways to view the nature of property and property rights. This paper considers the practice of sampling and how past understandings of property help us gain more sophisticated insights into the relationships between music, ownership, and culture. We examine the practice of sampling and show how its implications for property rights differ from other uses of intellectual property, particularly those involving musical copyrights. Having established that sampling is a distinctive artistic practice, we look at how it impacts the purposes of private property rights as discussed by John Locke, Adam Smith, G.W.F. Hegel, and John Stuart Mill. We conclude that within limits, sampling does not harm the economic, psychological, and utilitarian functions that have been used by past thinkers to justify personal rights to property. Read my musical creatures. The magic is in the lyrics...SingDarlene (talk) 00:45, 24 July 2008 (UTC)