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Originally Posted by TrevCircleStudios
A small word of warning. Unless you have express right to post remixes of other people's work I'd be very wary of doing so in the current climate. The labels are actively pursuing people who do so at the moment.
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Strictly speaking, this is of course
true. And not that we condone or recommend any illegal or illicit use of samples etc, but there are of course,
tens of thousands of un-commissioned remixes & mash-ups floating around cyber-space (for streaming and download). The vast majority of these will not even tickle a record companies interest due to the HUGE amount of work/cost needed to police the entire internet. If however, one of these 'productions' gains a high profile, then there's two usual results - The producer of said work will get a 'cease and desist' notice and possible follow up action - OR - a request from a (perhaps more forward thinking) copyright owner to acquire the master of the track to licence it for public consumption, so the work becomes a legitimate release (and this has happened quite often). In the case of the latter, sometimes new careers can even be birthed from a single successful remix/mash-up....
Pretty much a case of
'you pays yer money (erm, or not as it where) and yer takes yer chance'!