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Jul 21, 2008, 05:41AM

Girl Talk Bringing The Legal Smackdown On Unauthorized Sampling

Greg Gillis is not a DJ, and he's not afraid to tell you why sound collage is a better description for his emmintently danceable pop music mash-ups. By sound collage he means sampling other people's work and mixing them up for his own creative purposes. So what happens when people sample his work and make videos? Like Metallica, he threatens to sue them into oblivion with his crack legal team and send them to jail.

The following video was included in this article:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hyVlt5trTgo

Here's an example of the offending video. We'll see how D-Bo likes your video editing skills in the county lock-up, Mr. BunnyGreenhouse.

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