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![]() ![]() The Ensoniq Mirage, for example, could only sample up to three seconds of audio at 8-bit quality. Early samplers developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s were only capable of storing very brief audio fragments. ![]() The sampler, whilst essentially a duplication device is not used for the wholesale piracy of recorded music. The 1971 Act introduced a new copyright in sound recordings created after 15 th February 1972 and was intended to curb piracy stemming from relatively inexpensive recording equipment that became available during the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1972 American sound recordings have been protected by virtue of the Sound Recording Act 1971 which was later incorporated into s.114 of the Copyright Act 1976. But Grand Upright was neither concerned with mass piracy, nor even unauthorised duplication of a whole song the offending action was sampling. ![]() 1991) a case concerned with two words that have become very familiar in the post-Napster world: music and piracy. “Thou shalt not steal” – the (uncited) admonishment from Exodus 20:15 opened Judge Kevin Duffy’s judgment in Grand Upright Music Ltd. ![]()
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