Appeals court rules brief "Vogue" horn sample was not copyright infringement

[Phrenological]

IDK, he worked with Nile Rodgers but did he really try to co-opt into movements without collaborating?

[Phrenological]

And don’t release a video saying you were attempting to recreate / “reimagine” (or whatever Pharell calls it) the specific song.

[NickSay]

I think 0.25 seconds should just have been declared fair use. Maybe there is a desire to avoid a numerical definition?

I’m trying to imagine a 0.25s sample that would confuse the market or unfairly drain sales from the original…

…all I can come up with is a series of 960 consecutive 0.25s samples comprising your entire composition - that seems unfair