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Originally Posted by Keith
To be clear, you're dead wrong that this was ever said. Brolo thinks he took a drum beat idea from a Queen song, and we heard both songs, and Chemda, myself and everyone listening didn't hear the comparison at all. We think he was going out of his way to give credit (that he didn't even need to). In no way was it close to what you wrote. (That's the difference.)
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Keith thanks for the correction...Its been awhile since I listened back to that show
What BroLo did is sampling and now listening back it obvious to me that the beat is the same
But even just 3 beats is copyright violation according to the law. You wanna looks at a real asinine copyright case(Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films[NWA sampled a two-second guitar chord from Funkadelic's tune,"Get off your ass and jam", lowered the pitch and looped it five times in their song, "100miles and running". This was all done without Funkadelic's permission and with no compensation paid to Bridgeport Music, which owns the rights to Funkadelic's music. Bridgeport brought the issue before a federal judge, who ruled that the incident was not in violation of copyright law.]).
The film I linked to specifically discusses this landmark case in detail minutes 3min--8min30seconds(You are a busy guy Keith but 5.5minutes isn't too much time to gain a better understanding of the copyrights and sampling) where they have Dr Lawrence Ferrara, Director of NYU music department, who is actively involved in intellectual property and music copyright.
You have to listen closely to the sample which was considered a copyright violation much like BroLo did with just the 3 beats. To the untrained ear you won't notice the sample but if you listen for it you know is there
Here is the link to the whole film, just watch 3minutes - 8min 30seconds to get the point
http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/