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The Effect of Copyrights on Hip-Hop Artists

Bismarke's 1991 song for my need a haircut that album it's called alone again and Bismarke lifted pretty heavily from that. The judge ruled in the copyright holders favor against Warner Brothers so all of a sudden Warner Brothers big business big company sure starts circling the wagons like okay there we're really exposed right now because yeah all of our hip-hop artists are running around sampling anybody they want to, he says.

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