[Rumori] 3 Notes and Runnin': Call for Submissions

[Michael Bell-Smith]

Michael Bell-Smith and Downhill Battle are currently seeking 
submissions for 3 Notes and Runnin’, an online music compilation 
commemorating and protesting The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling 
in Case No. 01-00412.

In the case, the court found that NWA violated copyright law when they 
sampled 3 notes of a guitar riff from Funkadelic’s “Get off Your Ass 
and Jam” for their song “100 Miles and Runnin’". The ruling reversed a 
district court finding that because “no reasonable juror, even one 
familiar with the works of George Clinton, would recognize the source 
of the sample without having been told of its source", sampling 
clearance should not be required.

In doing so, the court broke from decades of established sample 
practice by ruling that all samples, regardless of how heavily 
manipulated or unrecognizable they may be, are subject either to 
“clearance” (obtaining permission for use of the sample, usually in 
exchange for money) or litigation.

To protest this decision, we are creating a forum for sample-based 
musicians and artists to share their own 30 second songs which have 
been created using only the sample in question. By doing so, we hope to 
showcase the potential and diversity of sample based music and sound 
art, and to call into question the relationship between a sample and 
its use.

All submissions to the compilation will be posted on the 3 Notes and 
Runnin' site as they are received.

The project (along with more info) can be found at: 
http://downhillbattle.org/3notes/


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