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09/09/26(Wed)05:16:55 No.131497169

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Anonymous 09/09/26(Wed)05:16:55 No.131497169

Kraftwerk fucking lost their two decade long shitfit over some dude who sampled their music.
>“The European Court of Justice has helped to clarify the urgently needed definition of the concept of pastiche, thereby seeking to strike a balance between artistic freedom and the protection of intellectual property,” says René Houareau, Managing Director Legal & Political Affairs for Germany’s music industry association BVMI, in a statement to Variety. “This is also significant because the exception introduced in Germany in 2021 has so far been associated with considerable legal uncertainty.”

>The path to the decision has been a long and complex one, with 22 years spent circumnavigating the European justice system across appeals and remandments that ping-ponged between two regional German courts, the German Federal Court of Justice, the German Federal Constitutional Court and, now, the ECJ.

>The pastiche provision “does not have a catch-all nature,” the Court wrote in its decision, “but covers creations which evoke one or more existing works, while being noticeably different from them, and which use, including by means of sampling, some of those works’ characteristic elements protected by copyright, in order to engage with those works in an artistic or creative dialogue that is recognisable as such and that can take different forms, in particular the form of an overt stylistic imitation of those works, of a tribute to them or of humorous or critical engagement with them.”
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/kraftwerk-loses-two-decade-copyright-dispute-1236728133/