posted by [1]hubie on Tuesday March 19, @02:47PM [2]Printer-friendly
   from the krautrock dept.

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   The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
   ([4]UNESCO), which aims to promote world peace and security through
   international cooperation in education, arts, sciences, and culture,
   has added Berlin's techno scene to its cultural heritage list.

   According to UNESCO, intangible cultural heritage refers to mainly
   cultural forms of expression, which are directly linked to human
   creativity and traditions, and which people pass those on through
   generations and are constantly evolving.

   This includes practices, rituals, knowledge, skills and performing arts
   such as music, dance and theater, which are meant to be preserved and
   kept alive.

   "Kraftwerk and African-American DJs and producers like Underground
   Resistance from Detroit, made a significant contribution to the
   creation and spread of techno culture," said Leichsenring.

          – [5]Berlin techno on Germany's intangible cultural heritage
          list, Deutsche Welle

   And

   Techno is a fundamental part of the city, according to Peter Kirn, a
   Berlin-based DJ and music producer. In 2021 he told the Observer: "In
   other cities, people wouldn't accept music that's really hard or weird
   and full of synthesisers and really brutal, distorted drum machines.
   You can't play that at peak hour in a club, let alone over lunch. And
   here it's totally acceptable to play that over lunch.

          – [6]Germany adds Berlin's techno scene to [UNESCO] cultural
          heritage list, The Guardian.

   And

   Over the course of the 1980s, the Berlin club scene developed into one
   of the world's leading centres of the beloved techno subculture of the
   time.

   The electronic music genre in particular became a kind of soundtrack to
   the years following German reunification, symbolised by legendary clubs
   such as Tresor, which opened in 1991, and the annual Love Parade.

          – [7]Berlin's techno scene added to UNESCO World Heritage list,
          The Local DE.

   Previously:
   (2020) [8]Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73
   (2016) [9]German Federal Constitutional Court: Artistic Freedom
   Sometimes Takes Precedence Over Copyright
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   [10]Original Submission

   [11]German Federal Constitutional Court: Artistic Freedom Sometimes
   Takes Precedence Over Copyright 22 comments

   [12]maxwell demon writes:

   Today, the German Federal Constitutional Court decided that under
   certain conditions, artistic freedom can take precedence over
   copyright.

   As [13]dw.com reports, the specific case the court was about sampling
   two seconds of a Kraftwerk song without permission:

     The legal dispute originated when electro-pop legends Kraftwerk
     complained, angered at [musician Moses] Pelham "sampling" a
     two-second segment of the 1977 track "Metall auf Metall" and using
     it on an endless loop for rapper Sabrina Setlur's song. Initially,
     Kraftwerk won an injunction from Germany's top criminal court (the
     BGH) - prompting Pelham to use his only remaining recourse for
     appeal and to apply for the Constitutional Court to reconsider the
     verdict.

   In particular,

     The court ruled that composers can, under certain conditions,
     incorporate external audio clips into their own music without asking
     permission and do not have to pay royalties. If the copyright
     infringement is only "marginal," the court said, then artistic
     freedom takes precedence over the intellectual property rights of
     the original musician.
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   [14]Original Submission

References

   1. https://soylentnews.org/~hubie/
   2. https://soylentnews.org/print.pl?sid=24/03/18/0529259
   3. https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=10
   4. https://www.unesco.org/en/brief
   5. https://www.dw.com/en/unesco-adds-traditions-to-its-intangible-cultural-heritage-list/a-60128340
   6. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list
   7. https://www.thelocal.de/20240314/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-world-heritage-list
   8. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/05/06/2232225
   9. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/05/31/1421207
  10. https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=62322
  11. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/05/31/1421207
  12. https://soylentnews.org/~maxwell+demon/
  13. http://www.dw.com/en/kraftwerk-suffer-court-setback-in-bid-to-prevent-sampling-without-asking-permission/a-19295062
  14. https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=13934