It?s no secret that Girl Talk albums are a legal minefield. Each one has, like, a gazillion samples ? none of them cleared and few if any sanctioned by the original artists.
As a recent
FMC blog post points out, Girl Talk and his label Illegal Art believe his work is legal under the ?fair use principle,? a term in copyright law that recognizes that a copyrighted work can be used for ?purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research? without being considered infringing.