Dr. Dre (Andre Young) has a filed a lawsuit against his former label Death Row Records over copyright ownership to the album “The Chronic.” In 1996, Dr. Dre agreed to give up 50% ownership of the rights to the album in exchange for continued royalties. However, Death Row never paid up and now Dre wants his music back!
Timeline of events via Pitchfork
Specific details about this case via Billboard
503 pre-litigation settlements letters have been sent to 58 different Universities from the RIAA.
These letters are part of the RIAA’s education and deterrence campaign that is focusing on illegal file sharing on college campuses. This campaign offers students a chance to settle copyright infringement claims against them at a discounted rate. If the students choose not to participate… formal lawsuits will be filed.
Since February, the RIAA has sent 2,926 of these pre-litigation settlement letters to university students.
More free remixes were added to the funky music collection recently (7 to be specific). Check them out and let us know what you think…
Just Dance, by DJiz
An electronic, hip hop styled remix featuring vocals from CaraMel G.
Gold Teeth Remix, by Wade Alin
A rap rock remix that samples Chuck D’s No Meaning No.
You Asked For It (World Is Different Mix), by DJ Blue
Samples JFK from his 1961 Inaugural Address… some scratching too!
Life of Luxury (Second Hand Treatment), by Teru
Some funky hip hop with vocals from Boddyker, Nails and G’Wills.
Crazy Love(Shadow) UK2NYC, by Loveshadow
A smooth hip hop remix featuring amazing vocals from Frank Carter III.
Crazy Love, by MC Jack in the Box
Another remix featuring vocals from Frank Carter III (yes, he is that good).
Bong Crisby (Doobie Doo), by Fourstones
A funky, instrumental remix… this one has some great bass and guitar.
DRM, or digital rights management, is a technology being used by publishers and other copyright holders to limit the piracy of digital media and devices. Most record labels insist that online music retailers employ DRM to prevent rampant copying and piracy.
However, Wal-Mart has recently began selling songs without DRM on their website for $0.94 per song, or $9.44 an album.
Kevin Swint, Wal-Mart’s senior director for digital media, said… “Our new ‘DRM-free’ MP3 digital tracks give (customers) the ease and flexibility to play music on virtually any device at a great value.”
Creative Commons, DJ Vadim and BBE have released all original solo, individual instrumental and a cappella tracks for DJ Vadim’s “Soundcatcher” album under an Attribution NonCommercial license.
This is cool because remixers and producers can freely sample these audio sources to create their own (non-commercial) works.
If you are a producer, go download the audio sources from ccMixter. Then, I would encourage you to create an account at ccMixter, and upload your new tracks so others can check them out.
Download DJ Vadim’s audio sources.
