The White Stripes are being sued by a Canadian DJ for using a clip of her show without permission on a track.
Dominique Payette's argument is that Jack and Meg used ten seconds of her show on the song 'Jumble, Jumble' without clearance. The track featured on the band's De Stijl LP.
Pitchfork reports that Payette is looking for $70,000 for violation of privacy, and an injunction to prevent further distribution of the eight-year-old album. She was made aware of the sample - her speaking a few words of French (hear it here) - only last year.
The White Stripes, their management and label are yet to comment.
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lol. what dumbfucks.
Prevent further distribution?!
Take your money bitch, but there's no need to stop fans getting the album in the future.
'Violation of privacy'?! Until you sued, noone knew whpo you were or gave a fuck about you. This has put you more in the public eye than you were before. Cock.
if i found out my voice was on some album somewhere
without my permission - i would be seriously fucked off.
don't worry
it never will be
why's that?
Why?
because they used it without my permission.
and, it'd be weird. i think she's well within her rights here.
anyway, it's the same as any piece of music. any samples. they need permission to use them - and they should have got it.
I know you need permission
but I don't see why you would be seriously fucked off. No one noticed for 8 years.
BE MORE CONSTRUCTIVE
WITH YOUR FEEDBACK
even if that was a recording
of you ON THE RADIO?
especially if so.
WTF
Does she even say in it? It's barely audible! An invasion of privacy!? Pffft, not exactly the same as someone peering through your window. BINT
they would ave paid peanuts
now they pay gold nuggets eh heh
this is ridiculous
the sample is completely irrelevant, tiny, barely audible and from a public radio show.
Prevent further distribution of one of the best records out there. Dearest me. They'll probably just take out the sample which'll make no difference to anything.
Writing of samples on that record the one of a young Jack saying that poem is brilliant.
i always thought
that the voice belonged to jack! his voice can sound quite feminine at times. as for her claims that it invades her privacy.. well, it's obvious that she needs to say something to warrant the amount of dosh that she's asked for, it's pretty irrelevent what it is.
she wouldn't have bothered
if the white stripes were poor, what a money grabbing botch. I bet she is also sueing her local homeless person for endangering her lie by being a tripping hazard. or something.
And how is it an invasion of privacy if they sampled her RADIO SHOW!??! was is a private radio show that only bats can hear?
Plain Fucking Greedy
IMO.
so,
if you had the chance to sue a pair of millionaires for a life changing sum of money - what would seem like tuppence to them, you wouldn't go for it?
$70,000 is hardly life changing
especially if they are Canadian dollars. It'll buy her a new car and a couple of holidays.
Violation of privacy???
She's a DJ FFS. She's paid to stand on a pedestal and talk shit to people she doesn't know.
i can tell....
... alot of you like the white stripes.
I couldn't...
Ohhhhhh. Huh.
if it means fewer people will be able to hear the White Stripes
i'm all for it
wow
shes really taking the piss there...
yeah White Stripes were silly for not getting permission, but still, what a pisstake
Am I the only one
who, as a musician, wouldn't care (and would probably be very honoured) if someone sampled my music?
oh wow
he's in a band.
as a fan...
of both The White Stripes and common sense, i think this lawsuit is deeply spurious
like, really really dumb
money grabbing and pointless
but at least it fueled this argument on here, so not a complete waste of time, just ours :)
Does this mean
that my copy of De Stijl could be worth something in the future?