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Originally Posted by JackSpratts
i'm not clear why this might prove advantageous to a swedish artist vis-a-vis her american counterpart per-se, since artists are generally free to incorporate whatever they feel like incorporating in their work.
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Are they? Can for example an US artist freely create
and release (say using non-commercial public channels) an original work of art where the sound material comes from say today's 20 most sold US singles? I'm not interested in the question of cheap commercial rip-offs or non-creative repackings but in clearly original creative works where the sound material just happens to come from fresh commercial works? Say an artist builds a smart sound collage from bits and pieces of these 20 different tracks so that the new work is clearly not derived from any of the source material works but rather a novel, creative recombination of their elements plus whatever other stuff the artists would like to add. Would an American artist be free to release such a work without fear of being harassed by the copyright owners of the original works?