(313) Re: (idm) article by moby in Time

From Cesium5Hz
Sent Thu, Feb 17th 2000, 20:44

In a message dated 18/02/00 3:57:15 xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx writes:

>  
>  perhaps the problem is aesthetic, not moral. Moby managed to make a sow's 
> ear out of a silk purse. His collages were too heavily reliant on the 
> strength of somebody else's material, his creative contribution was to "
> personalize" something better heard on its own terms. had the result been 
> truly creative and interesting, I don't think "moral" questions would arise 
> about Moby.
>  
>  another issue lies in the old dialog about what constitutes a legitimate 
use 
> of someone else's music vis a vis sampling. using little snippets or riffs 
to 
> give color to a truly original piece of music is not problematic. using 
> someone's entire song (as Moby does) without their consent becomes 
> problematic, and that has nothing to do with class or race.  
>  


What would we really say if Moby tried to do so with a UR track??? 
Is there any real difference with the issue of the Jaguar commercial copy 
- or does he get away with a more subtle rip-off of an original because he is 
Moby. 


A_Zed
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