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Entertainment & Sports

Nov. 19, 2003

Facing the

Forum Column By Jay Handlin In deciding the appeal in Newton v. Diamond , the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had a chance to shed some real light on the still-murky jurisprudence surrounding music sampling - the process by which recording artists, typically rappers, digitally copy or "sample" segments from pre-existing works and incorporate the samples into new recordings. Some cases are easy: Unauthorized samplings of extended, complex, distinctive segments of a copyright work generally

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