Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled on September 3, 2026 that producer Moses Pelham's uncleared two-second sample of Kraftwerk's "Metall auf Metall" is protected as pastiche under EU copyright law, closing out a 27-year lawsuit and setting a precedent for sample-based music across the EU.
Germany's Federal Court of Justice has issued its final ruling that Moses Pelham's two-second loop from Kraftwerk's "Metall auf Metall" is a lawful "pastiche," closing a three-decade case and setting an EU-aligned precedent for sampling without clearance.
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