In its latest opinion, the European Copyright Society has reviewed the German Federal Court of Justice’s (BGH) referral in the Pelham II (aka Metall auf Metall) case. Although the beginning of the legal dispute dates back to 1999, a quarter century seemed to be not enough to answer all possible questions surrounding the sampling of a two-second segment of Kraftwerk’s recording ‘Metall auf Metall’ in the recording of the song ‘Nur Mir’, that was part of the 1997 album ‘Die neue S-Klasse’ of the German rapper Sabrina Setlur … (more)
Peter Mezei, Martin Senftleben, Caterina Sganga and Christophe Geiger, Kluwer Copyright Blog, 7 November 2024.
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