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Old Apr 26, 2022, 11:50 PM
GoneDaffy GoneDaffy is offline
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Default So, when does a DJ record become official/remain a bootleg? ect.

So I just created a new account at this site because I saw that a lot of the video game related DJ records I have are completely missing from this website.

I was trying to submit new entries to the database, but was unsure of whether to label them as 'bootlegs' or not, so I turned to the 'Video Game Breaks' series (Volumes 1-3) as my primary examples to go off of, and as it turns out, these releases are NOT labeled as bootlegs.

So I checked with Discogs, which had these three records labeled as bootlegs for several years, only to find out that they were all re-classified recently as 'legit releases', and allowed for sale on Discogs... even though all three of these records feature tons, and I mean TONS, of sampled sound effects and music tracks from very famous video games.

So, this is my question. Does calling a record a "DJ tool record" clear it of all illlegal faults because it's something that most people don't even bother to try and understand, just because it ain't an OST, and therefore, not listenable from a casual users perspective?

I truly have no idea if all of my video game-based DJ records are legit or not. Most DJ records have been ripping the same samples off of each other for literal decades, whether they are video game based or not, so who really knows what's legal and what's not at this point.

I actually spoke with a lawyer about this topic, and they argue that because DJ records take the existing samples and re-edit them for DJ-specific usage, that records like this qualify under the "transformative property", where you are taking the original samples and creating something entirely new out of them, allowing for some legal lee-way. Perhaps this is why sample records like these are suddenly allowed for sale everywhere.

But who knows for sure. I don't know anything. I'm just trying to connect 2 + 2 in my brain, and nothing I am seeing here makes sense. Help me make it make sense.
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