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Originally posted by MrPeanut
I knew EDM producers can remix any song they like as like as long as they're not selling it (or can they?), but are there any laws against snatching someone else's song and shoehorning yourself into it for public consumption?
Like I know any ol' body can record a cover of whatever and upload it at free will, but if someone uploads the artist's version of the track they can be forced to take it down, no?
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I think it depends on whether the original creator feels if the remix is not dissimilar enough to the original work. The whole issue with the "fair usage" is not entirely defined, in terms of whether we need direct permission from the artist himself/herself to use their work, because some people just remix and release for free. I remember everyone jumped on the Paper Planes remix bandwagon, while you have someone like Baauer who barred Azealia from releasing her Harlem Shake remix
i luh it 
wonder if katy actually wrote japanese-y herself though? i thought that was really funny 
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