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Currently on the promo trail for their new live DVD/album A Cross The Universe, French electro fiends Justice have made a rather frank – and quite possibly costly – admission in an interview with MTV… They didn’t clear all the samples included on their 2007 debut album †! “If you listen to Genesis, the first track [on †, there are samples of Slipknot, Queen and 50 Cent,” Xavier de Rosnay asserted boldly. “But they are such short samples no one can recognise them. The ones from Slipknot, for example, are just tiny bits of the voice.”
Of course it’s no shock to hear a dance artist would choose to sample another musical act, the entire scene is built on the process of appropriating other people’s music. However it is strange that de Rosnay decided to reveal the exact source of their errant audio snippets, with fellow producers having been sued for copyright infringement for much less. “Sometimes we do also use big samples. On the album, we used three big samples that we had to clear, and all the rest are just impossible to recognise.”
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knobbz says...
damm french always stealing
Justinshoe says...
deny deny deny!
GrEnNo says...
if they wouldnt of told ppl, no one would of known, stupid noise makers
cloudpost says...
lol slipknot.
Verbal says...
having a huge ego... makes you do/say stupid things.
polarbear says...
they're just taking the piss again. they lie about all this stuff all the time. funny guys.
CorbanDallas says...
silly silly boys
avatar_karma says...
i hope they get sued into submission.
brenly says...
i wouldn't know coz i don't listen to SHIT MUSIC!!! and they're sampling from 50 cent?? their music must be real good then... ... ...
designripple says...
... I'm sorry.. is this even a story?
munyous says...
they know exactly what they are saying... theyre not that dumb to 'accidently' mention something like that to media sources without some intention. I wouldnt be surprised if its just a bit of an attention grab.. good on em! why not
JamesRaymond says...
This news entry is pathetic. You don't have any decent info to report, so you bring up old interview material from last year and hype it now? Pathetic. xox.
i_have_ADD says...
jamesraymond maybe get your facts right next time? interview is dated this week; http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1599116/20081111/justice__dance_.jhtml
Kurtis_Blow says...
I don't think that it is a mistake to have mentioned such things in an interview because as far as I am aware you are allowed to include samples of whatever you like as long as it is unrecognisable which is what is stated numerous times. And as they said they cleared the longer samples which were recognisable. No issue really...
rowandix says...
bang on the money mr blow. If Slipknot's lawyers can spot what was sampled, good luck to them. haha
Dance for me says...
It is called publicity! and the best part....it is for free!
macc4 says...
french stealing music is just ice on a frog's back
lunabass says...
i think they are taking the piss...pretty smart if you ask me. as far as copyright law goes, there is no clause allowing you to use someone else's work if you make the sample under a certain length or unrecognisable. if someone can prove you used their work and your track is making money...look out! a guy in the US was sued for sampling a kick drum. it wasn't that the original owner of the kick drum could tell that this was the case by listening to the song, it was the fact that the guy who sampled the kick admitted to using it to someone and that was all the proof needed...the guy had to cough up the dosh