…pastiche provision is likely to prove central to one of EU copyright law’s most long-standing disputes, that between iconic German electronic music band Kraftwerk and German Hip-Hop producer Moses Pelham….
…Pelham had argued that he should be allowed, without prior authorization, to use a two-second rhythm sequence he had taken from Kraftwerk’s ‘Metall auf Metall’. Kraftwerk had argued that unauthorized…
…perhaps most prominent case, which pitted the 70s electronic band Kraftwerk against German hip-hop producer Moses Pelham, the German Federal Supreme Court ruling did not lead to a decision on…
…Kraftwerk, electronic music pioneers, against Moses Pelham, a music producer, over a two-second sample dated from 1977. The main subject of the three legal proceedings concerned the extraction of a…
…Facts and Questions The facts of the case have been previously discussed in this blog. In essence, in 1977 the band Kraftwerk published a phonogram featuring the song Metall auf…
…claim of the members of Kraftwerk, electronic music pioneers, against Moses Pelham, a music producer, over a two-second sample dated from 1977. The main subject of the three legal proceedings…
…the Federal Constitutional Court dealt with a non-licensed sample, namely the copying of a two-second rhythm sequence from the recording “Metall auf Metall” by the band “Kraftwerk” which was played…
