aight dvyce says that it's illegal to even give away a mixtape...I mean I'm wondering are Instrumentals actually sold? because that's the only thing that's goin to be on a mixtape of mine that belongs to someone else...but it's not really taking any money out of their mouth since I'm not seeing any money from their work...I wanna know if DL'in instrumentals also counts as piracy...
and I mean it's not like producers or the artists don't know whut's up...If they don't want their beats tampered with...then they wouldn't of allowed it to be released in the first place...they woulda held tight security on those beats...instead of allowing them to have such easy accessibility...on tha other hand...the actual defintion of a copyright reads...
"the
exclusive right to make
copies, license, and
otherwise exploit a literary,
musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 50 years after his or her death".
H&R said:
There are legalities to it but there are loopholes as well you just have to know whats what.
that's whut I'm tryin to arm myself with...because if Drama can dodge all of these obstacles...then i know I can damn sure surpass all of these obstacles...
because I'm an asipiring artist at the bottom of the bottom...I don't got bread to jus hire producers and get beats from them and will hardly have enough time to make beats of my own...plus...using the instrumentals that are out now and popular is a good business move...since the beat that the demographic I'm aiming for has already heard will attract them almost automatically since they are already accustomed to the beat...and to hear fresh, new talent on them will increase my chances of gettin noticed by people...using industry beats gets the listener comfortable with they are listening to...and hopefully will get them comfortable with the individual they are listening to...to the point...they can move on to original beats without losing newly accquired fans this early in their career...
It's like the same thing that new artists couple of years ago that are now established (i.e. The Game) where doing to get noticed out of the sea of new talent that was out there...They would hop on an industry beat with a Fallen Soldier like BIG or Pac or Pun...because those individuals were and still are revered within the hip-hop community...so people would see that acapellas of the greats were on their tapes to check them out...and eventually get exposure...and now look at where Game went after those mixtapes...with Dre and makin arguable classics with the man...
It's technically the same method with mixtapes as to attract an audience...the ultimate goal is to display whut you have to offer for the industry and for the hip-hop community...but you utilize soomething that the public is used to (industry instrumentals) and hit them upside they head with the new stuff you have to put on the table...and hopefully get exposure...the producers and artists that are makin these industry records were once at the lowest level of tryin to get to where they are at today...so they should be able to understand...and if selling mixtapes is so damn illegal...then frankly i think that it woulda got shut down a loooooong time ago...
and sorry for makin so much to read...i got carried away...
PS.
Precious P. said:
They are selling tons of mixtapes claiming they sell their stickers. EVERYONE knows that they are infact paying for the mixtape, not the sticker.
You say "what should they do with the sticker", well, you planned to charge money for the cover, what should people do with the cover? Hang it up their wall or something?
Hope you got the point now!!!!
lolol...I do get the point now...
