"George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic have relentlessly endured a long history of legal battles involving copyright infringement and publishing embezzlement of their iconic music. As one of the most sampled artists in history, P-Funk has amazingly lost most of the profits generated from sampling due to copyright (sample) trolls and questionable legal represe."
That's on a website http://www.funkprobosci.com/about/ which didn't mention that Clinton lost the case and lost all the rights to his 1976-1982. after James brown, the most sampled artist of all time. And he has been fucked and fucked and fucked. What is this shit? Why are they not paying the man?
From Muddy Waters to Prince, black musicians have been screwed over. It is repulsive.
Here is the Page Six item: "Because a Florida judge ruled last month that iconic funk king George Clinton doesn’t own the rights to any music he created from 1976 to 1983, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is now seeking help from fans online to preserve his recording studio. Clinton, the former leader of Funkadelic, has set up a $50,000 fund-raising campaign on leading “crowd-funding” Web site IndieGoGo, and he’s giving supporters autographed CDs and T-shirts for contributions as low as $35. Other items include private concerts and Clinton’s voice on your outgoing phone message. The broke singer’s IndieGoGo page says he’s aiming to “re-create” classic tracks, and it lists studio hardware he need"
Really? We want to screw over George Clinton? To What end? Jigga and Jeezy owe him a fortune, why don't the cheap bastards give him the 50K.
This is infuriating. How can Clinton not raise a lousy 50K? After his music has been used for decades. What the fuck? What the… ugh, I'm furious.