I have a music project due soon for a college music class focusing on the use of technology in creating music.
My question: is sampling/recording segments of audio from dvds and/or youtube via programs like audacity for the purpose of creating new audio in an academic setting legal?
Any ideas welcome.
Yep Lo-Fi hiphop artiists do it all the time, just make sure it's hard to figure out from which song the sample is.
>>18122026
Should be. Just cite/credit your sources, the same as you would if you were writing a research paper.
>>18122101
This. The fact that you're doing this for educational purposes gives you some leeway here. I would cite sources just to be on the safe side, but definitely hack them up until they sound like something different because that's part of the fun of sampling stuff
>>18122026
As long as you're not selling it. In its most base legal sense, recreating or reproducing copyrighted audio is technically an actionable offense but big corporations hardly have enough time or energy to prosecute every poor college kid who uses a 10 second clip of their audio for an art project.
You're small fish, don't worry.
>>18122026
Copyright law contains an exception for legitimate nonprofit academic use. Just don't keep or re-use it for anything beyond your one school assignment.