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A remix can make an old song feel completely new. That doesn't mean the person who created it owns every sound they used, or that a platform's permission to host it grants a right to release it commercially.
This essay explores the legal and creative space between inspiration, sampling and licensed transformation. It explains the separate rights in a composition and a sound recording, the conditions of Canada's noncommercial user-generated content exception, and what SOCAN v Bell and CBC v SODRAC actually decided. It also considers the interests of original artists and remixers, without treating artistic originality as an automatic exception to copyright.
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