Copyright Criminals is a documentary that examines the practice of music sampling, a relatively recent practice (starting in the 1980's, perhaps?) in music that is now commonplace--particularly in hip hop and rap. Through interviews with musical artists, DJs, producers and industry people, we learn that sampling started by people just mixing different sounds to create a new sound. Eventually, the original artists, producers and record companies started saying, "Hey, you're stealing my music." Lawsuits were launched, and new practices had to be put into place whereby artists must now negotiate rights (ie. $$) in order to use sampled beats, sounds or snatches of music in their own composition. A very interesting film that was screened free at Yonge-Dundas Square on the closing night of the Toronto International Film Festival. (Interesting, too, that the movie was shown for free at an outdoor venue and was followed by an audio/visual mashup created by Eclectic Method, whose performance demonstrates sampling of audio and video as well as anything.) I believe Copyright Criminals will be shown on PBS in early 2010.
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