He's just too cute for litigation

Feed the Animals, the pay-what-you-will second album from mash-up musician Girl Talk, samples over 300 different songs. This is quite wild, because hip-hop artists get the bajeezus sued out of them for for sampling even one song without clearance. (See: 2 Live Crew, Wyclef, Kanye, Ludacris, and, this week, Mary J. Blige)

But Girl Talk, aka Greg Gillis, has never been threatened with legal action.

Curious.

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Aug 8, 2008 · posted by drew · Link · 8 Responses