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The NWA case illustrates the degree to which legal codes and the oxymoronic "intellectual property rights" lens is out-of-step with rip-mix-burn performances and the overall attitude and innovative potential of the “share crowd.” The courts ruled “that even if a sample has been mixed into an unrecognizable form, artists

must secure the rights to use such clips. In this case, NWA used a 1.5-second section of Funkadelic's "Get Off Your Ass and Jam” for their “100 Miles and Runnin'.” The ruling reversed a lower court decision.” If you place the needle on the band that separates this Funkadelic track—which closes side one of “Let’s Take it to the Stage”—from the one that precedes it, the swatch of sound in question is the first to meet your ears. But it seems to have little to do with the rest of the grooves on this track. Apparently, producer/deity George Clinton (or somebody) decided that a short 3 seconds of a frenzied Eddie Hazel performance needed to be sampled at the peak of its histrionics, processed by delay echo or perhaps Hazel himself filtered his signal between guitar and amp; of course, Clinton's recording ecology certainly allowed Funkadelic to trope sounds between mic-on-amp and tape), and placed within but only at the very beginning of an entirely different context

and performance. Years ago, in 1987, Public Enemy sampled from this same band of Funkadelic, and this sample has been used by numerous high-profile recording artists since that time. While NWA admittedly used the sample, they had troped it beyond recognizabilty. Quite simply, the looped noise in the NWA track is a new sound, a different sound from the snippet of Hazel in question. "It's a ridiculous standard," said Nicholas Reville, co-founder of Downhill Battle, which organized the 3 Notes and Runnin' protest. "It's a standard that only comes about when the current copyright regime is totally out of sync with the way music is made today." (Dean, 2003, http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65037,00.html).

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