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Sampling Error

Julian Sanchez | 9.8.2004 4:47 AM

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The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that sampling is illegal, even when the sample in question is an essentially unrecognizable snippet. The case at issue here involved a two-second, three-note P-Funk lick that had been altered and looped.

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