question about mixtapes

[ACGRUNDY]

so since all these mixtapes have come out within the last year and lots of rappers use other rappers beats, I was wonderin some things.

do they need any permission to use a beat for a mixtape?  is it legal to use other peoples beats?

I know some places be sellin mixtapes, so doesn't that make it illegal that they used someone else's beats?

can anyone put out a mixtape with any beats they want on it and sell it and legally get away with it?

[michael jackson]

if itss a mixxtapes it means u aint contaccted and means it aint bar-coded so u can do whut tha fucc u want cuzz.locc at dat nicca daz he release whole albums with no barcodess which iss why he get away wit selling suga knights shit u feel me.mixxtapes and some bootleg underground albums sint official .u try to release an album in store,barcoded and pressed with anutha muthafuccass beat u in chyt then

[ACGRUNDY]

so if I got 15 instruments of extremely popular songs, and rapped over them, and didn't have a barcode on the album, I couldn't get sued?  Even if the songs ended up being very popular and I sold a lot?

has anyone ever heard a mixtape song on the radio that reuses a beat?  Such as someone rapping over the in the club beat?  Can they play those songs on the radio?

[Don Seer]

we did the dubcnn mixtape legit tho, we got permission for the lot

[Lil Jay]

has anyone ever heard a mixtape song on the radio that reuses a beat?  Such as someone rapping over the in the club beat?  Can they play those songs on the radio?

yeah some of the tracks on the chuuuch mixtapes got radio play, which had beats like 50 cents "if i cant", "magic stick", 213 "im fly", theres tons more. i dont know if snoop got permission for those though

[Don Seer]

acgrundy.. technically no.

example.. that danger mouse jay-z 'whtie album' thing over beatles songs.

basically if it did blow up and hit the charts.. they'd be after you, outside that. you can most likely get away with it within the rap industry.

[CRAFTY]

Oh I didn't know that (I always wondered that myself too...).

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

yeah if its a mixtape you get away with most stuff