Kraftwerk loses German copyright case

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Kraftwerk played a sell-out set at London’s Tate Modern in 2013

Germany’s highest court has ruled in favour of a hip-hop artist who used a two-second sample of music from the pioneering electro-pop band Kraftwerk.

Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hutter sued Moses Pelham, alleging that his use of the clip, without asking, infringed the band’s intellectual property rights.

But the constitutional court decided that the impact on Kraftwerk did not outweigh “artistic freedom”.

The sample came from the cult band’s 1977 album Metal On Metal.

The dispute centres on a short drum sequence looped repeatedly in the song Nur Mir (Only Me) by Sabrina Setlur.

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