Gabber my friend

The music I listen to is called gabber (friend in the dutch language) It uses the sampling of found sound like that in film and animation, and the sampled loops of popular music and speeds them up to an excessive over 180 beats per minute. See Gabba (Gabber) Spongebob below

As I understood it this small sampling was legal and acceptable, but upon further reading, of Tapscott & Williams, I now understand the real situation. And it makes sense that a few seconds of sounds would be infringement as the drumbeat is a repeated sound, the looping is part of the original music. Use 2 seconds over and over and it becomes three or four minutes of copying pure and simple.

The mashup I created for YouTube had some longer samples than just the 2 seconds obviously but as I see it 2 seconds or 20 seconds didn’t matter, the problem was still the same, the duration didnt matter. And the mashup just becomes my intellectual property nightmare, and the project gives me the no-feeling.

I have in demos of my work had music and audio mashups of material Ive purchased, and as an accompaniment, more like a dj whos mixing only lasts for the evening, and it has never been embedded into the file. So Im uncomfortable, edgy and not in a good way.

Does anyone else have that feeling? Ya it could be the audio samples I used, or the way its mixed, but I think its because there are copyright questions involved my friend, and I’m so scared.

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