University of Miami Law School Institutional Repository University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review 10-1-1993 A Pirate's Palette: The Dilemmas of Digital Sound Sampling and a Proposed Compulsory License Solution Michael L. Baroni Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.miami.edu/umeslr Part of the Entertainment and Sports Law Commons Recommended Citation Michael L. Baroni, A Pirate's Palette: The Dilemmas of Digital Sound Sampling and a Proposed Compulsory License Solution, 11 U. Miami Ent. & Sports L. Rev. 65 (1993) Available at: http://repository.law.miami.edu/umeslr/vol11/iss1/5 This Comment is brought to you for free and open access by Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review by an authorized administrator of Institutional Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Baroni: A Pirate's Palette: The Dilemmas of Digital Sound Sampling and a COMMENTS A PIRATE'S PALETTE: THE DILEMMAS OF DIGITAL SOUND SAMPLING AND A PROPOSED COMPULSORY LICENSE SOLUTION MICHAEL L. BARONI* I. INTROD UCTION .......................................................... 65 II. DIGITAL SOUND SAMPLING .................................. ............. 68 III. COPYRIGHT LAW AND PROBLEMS WITH PROTECTION AGAINST SAMPLING ........ 73 IV. CURRENT MUSIC INDUSTRY PRACTICES FOR LICENSING SAMPLES ............... 91 V. A COMPULSORY LICENSE PROPOSAL FOR THE USE OF DIGITAL SAMPLES ......... 93 VI. CONCLUSION ........................................................... 104 I. INTRODUCTION' Digital sound sampling has revolutionized the music scene and fostered ethical controversy, legal ambiguity, ad hoc industry prac- tices, and a plethora of litigation and rancorous settlements. It also poses "excruciatingly difficult legal and moral questions."2 Sam- pling is a process whereby one can record, store, and manipulate any sound, s either live or lifted from a previous recording.