Response to The Chillin' Effect of Section 506: The Battle

The ideas in this paper are there to prevent plagiarism from occurring. The use of comparing "the quote of a rapper with that of a lawyer" raises question about why one is in the right and one is in the wrong. I think personally that sampling certain amounts of music should be allowable but only if credit is given within the produced material. For example, say a rapper wants to take a beat from "Ice Ice Baby." This rapper needs to credit MC Hammer and his producers for that sample somewhere on his produced work. I don't think he needs to dedicate any type of credit to him in his actual work but there needs some sort of contribution on the actual album cover. This article presents the development of the rules in which sampling and the development of music has to follow. It astonished me that the development of these type of rules began so long ago in the year of 1790 with the first federal copyright act. I was impressed by how persistant the improvements of the rules were overtime. Multiple Acts have been passed regarding the sampling an ddistribution of music including the Sound Rcording Act as well as the No Electronic Theft Act. I believe overall that the different developments over the time span of three centuries has allowed for the music industry to evolve. There are still controversies over which songs created from the use of sampling are infinging on copyrights or not. These problems are slowly being solved overtime and improvements and updates are sure to be made to further this progress in the future.