The EU’s Advocate General, Maciej Szpunar, has shared his opinion on Kraftwerk’s copyright infringement case against rapper and producer Moses Pelham. According to Szpunar, an uncleared sample, regardless of its total length, counts as infringement. Citing a provision in Directive 2001/29, he stated EU copyright law “must be interpreted as meaning” extracting a portion of a song onto a new one violates the producer’s original work.
Source: EU’s Advocate General Calls Use of Uncleared Samples Copyright Infringement