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Timbaland is a Thieving Bastard!!!
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| _Griphin_ User Info... | http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2274635&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 In 2000 the Finnish demoscene musician Janne Suni (also known as 'Tempest') won the Oldskool Music Competition at the Assembly demoparty with his four-channel Amiga .MOD entitled 'Acid Jazzed Evening.' A Commodore 64 musician called 'grg' remade the song on the C64 (using the infamous SID soundchip); it is this that was stolen. The producer's name is Timbaland and he is one of the hottest names in American music these days. The track in question is called 'Do it' and it is featured on the Nelly Furtado album 'Loose' on the Geffen label. Getting nowhere with Geffen, the demoscene has now risen to the aid of Tempest, first by creating a stir at SomethingAwful (files downloadable from the forum), then at Digg.com, then on YouTube, with a video demonstrating the blatant ripoff. Being an online-posting musician myself — what rights do I have if this should ever happen to me, and what can be done to raise awareness about such things?" I don't get why they didn't go after Timbaland rather then Geffen records, or perhaps I missed something. And I don't blame Furtado, she was probably pre-occupied with other things :) to even clue in to the fact that the melody came from an 8-bit computer. - Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:07pm Edited: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:07pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | I read the originator was not interested in taking on Geffen or Timbaland. Sure you might get a good settlement in the end, or you might spend a few hundred$K dollars and get nothing. That was their take on it anyway. If the scene has picked it up, then thats great! The case is obviously there, you just have to want to persue it. I would probably persue it, but moreso to get a cut of the specific roalty to that segment of music, rather than some punitive damages, etc, which I don't think is elegible anyway. It is pretty shitty given that big time artists and music companies are bitching so hard about US stealing music, now look... - Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:44am | ||
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