Tag Archives: Hip Hop

More Than Just a “Rude Rap Song”

Last week Matt Schruers wrote a blog post at Project Disco titled “Today’s Internet: Made Possible By A Rude Rap Song” (both TechDirt and Reason’s Hit & Run wrote follow up pieces). I enjoyed the post but as a hip hop head and a copyright nerd I need to drop some knowledge. I have one […]

March 13, 2014 – 10:58 am | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Intellectual Property | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

OT: New God Flow and Sampling

We interrupt the regular scheduled blogging for a brief off topic hip hop link-fest regarding G.O.O.D. Music’s recent track New God Flow and a recent article/discussion about Hip Hop sampling. Starts with this article The court case that changed hip-hop — from Public Enemy to Kanye — forever from the Washington Post. The article talks about this 1991 […]

July 14, 2012 – 5:36 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Intellectual Property, Off Topic | Tagged | Comments (0)