https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/11/jay-z-versus-the-sample-troll/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 26 May 2008 03:14:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/11/jay-z-versus-the-sample-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-4832 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:31:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4221#comment-4832 If copying someone else’s recording is so trivial, why don’t these “artists” just play their own version? Could it be that many are musically incompetent and must resort to lifting someone else’s work, running it through a computer in order to make their own music? I am only an amateur musician, but I wouldn’t think of lifting another’s track, putting it in my song, then calling it my own. Common sense tells me it wouldn’t be my own.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/11/jay-z-versus-the-sample-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-4831 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:26:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4221#comment-4831 The same scam is being done for intellectual property as with the Unix C patents. The US PTO is worthless beyond anything the Soviets even came up with which is why so many large companies now rely on “secret formulas” instead of patents. Where is the outrage?

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