Sampling

We had to write a paper in English Perspectives about sampling and copyright. I think it is an interesting topic (which does NOT mean, that I enjoyed writing a paper, but it was at least very short).

Sampling is obviously art, so you can not forbid it or anything; the problem is just that you need existing songs to start with. That's like colors for other artists. Just that using other songs is illegal and color is not.

You cannot blame that, but there is just no other way for samplers to produce because no one (except P. Diddy) has the money and the time to buy and fight for the laws. There are actually some web sides out there where you can download a part of the song (free and legal thanks to joint-ventures with some music cooperations) to sample your own song. If you look in you can even produce a little video for you song.
This all sounds very nice, but -as always- there is a little problem. Thinkmusic.net (the website I was talking about) has just 6861 songs, and everyone can imagine that that is not a whole lot. It is not enough for anyone who wants to sample.
But I think it's a great beginning and hope that websites like this (I'm sure there are a couple more out there) advance a little more and eventually have enough songs on day.