The difference between architecture
and hip hop sampling all comes down to the different ways of making a song or
building. A song can be created using anything that makes a sound, and with any
different pitch or combination of different instruments. Look at the new delta
faucet commercial, featuring percussionist Glenn Kotche, he makes a song out of
touch faucets and the water that it produces. Not only do we have hundreds of
different instruments but more sounds are used in music every day.
Let us
contrast this to architecture, how many different building materials can you
name? Can you name more building materials than things that produce sound?
Music has copyright laws because of the infinite ways to make a melody, two
songs that are identical without one sampling the other is unfathomable. Because
there is a finite amount of architectural strategies, if they can be
copyrighted, it won’t be long until new graduates have to literally re-invent
the brick to make a career for themselves.
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