Just heard from one of my distributors that DJ Shadow is getting e-bay to pull all listings that use his name as a reference point. I've got mixed feelings about this one.
DJ Shadown and e-bay
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This has been going on for a year at least, but I'm not sure if anyone has been able to explain why.
Is it cuz people are blowing up his samples and it's getting him sued? This I can understand.
Or is it "your useing my name for advertizing without paying my"? This is a little iffy cuz he's making bucks off sampling other peoples voices/music and not always haveing to pay them.
I don't think it has anything to do with people selling his records, cuz obviously it's fine to list the artist in that case.
been like that for a minute. I haven't sold in nearly a year, but before I quit I had 2 auctions pulled by Josh's company. They must have been doing it manually before, probably easier to just have eBay outlaw the use of his name!
Oh, on the flip, his company BOUGHT a sealed Kelly's Heroes OST from me around the same time. Weird.
I can understand if he doesn't want every herb using his name in their title headings just to get someone to look at their auction.
I've seen this many times; where someone puts dj shadow, UNKLE, Futura, Bape, WARP, Dunks etc. in their auction for something that is only slightly related...
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This amounts to false advertising, and I don't know anyone who wants to be associated with that.
If someone's selling a record that Shadow sampled, i don't see how he can, legally, prevent someone from listing it as sampled by DJ Shadow... is this really what he's doing?
Shadow beats
samples DJ Shadow
drum break DJ Shadow
Does not contain sample used in organ donor but has similar riffs.
I've seen this many times; where someone puts dj shadow, UNKLE, Futura, Bape, WARP, Dunks etc. in their auction for something that is only slightly related...
[color:white] disclaimer:this is just an example to illustrate a point, ok?
This amounts to false advertising, and I don't know anyone who wants to be associated with that.
If someone's selling a record that Shadow sampled, i don't see how he can, legally, prevent someone from listing it as sampled by DJ Shadow... is this really what he's doing?
Shadow beats
samples DJ Shadow
drum break DJ Shadow
Does not contain sample used in organ donor but has similar riffs.
But you'd think eBay'd be telling him to hug a nut becaase they know all these lil dudes will bid crazy for some otherwise worthless shit b/c it was sampled by Josh.Only way is if he trademarked his name. Like paying Phil Jackson (or Pat Riley?) to market with the word "Threepeat"
