Kraftwerk Spent Almost 30 Years Trying to Stop a Two-Second Sample. Germany Just Ruled It Legal for Good.
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.
Elena R. · 6 min read