why is the Amen Brother breakbeat included in this software as if it's open source and GPL / MIT license? Just because something has been stolen a million times, that doesn't make it public domain, it's still under copyright and owned by its publisher, who I'm pretty certain has never given it away under a free license.
It's worth noting that the particular recording they include[0] is not the original performance, it's a CC0 (public domain) recreation of the sample.
So the recording itself has no copyright attached, but yes, there's still a question of the copyright on the composition.
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I'd be really curious for this particular sample to go to court because unless The Winstons have been aggressively enforcing this copyright they may have already lost it to the public domain.
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