http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=43259
What a bunch of killjoys they are in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. This is a call to arms: Everyone needs to make a track made ENTIRELY of uncleared samples. The new ruling basically says that samples of ANY length need to be licensed. So you could, for example, take a recording, and make notes out of single cycle samples, and it would be illegal. If you feel, as I do, that creative sampling is a integral part of the art of modern music making, this is, in effect, a gag order on a large number of artists who are not simply biting the work of others. When sampling is outlawed, only outlaws will be sampling.
