Anyone ever produce an album & didn't even know about it?

[sumone 10+ year member]

I produced half an album for one guy, then produced a track that was turned into a music video & didn't even know about either...haha!

1. My brother knows this guy who's putting out an album. Once my brother had the album, he recognized some of my beats on there....and thought I sold my stuff to him...which is not true. Half the tracks on there were mine, and half of the remaining were my other guy's beats (who also didn't know his beats were being used).

- It still has yet to be discovered how he got our beats...Since me & my guys do share each other's beats with each other, I'm guessing a CD got into the wrong hands, but we still don't know how or when...

2. My guy was watching channel 19 (a local cable tv channel) and a music video with a "familiar" beat came on with some people rapping to it. This familiar beat happened to be mine. The chance that #1 someone would listen to my garbage, #2 actually reloop it into a full song, #3 lay down vocals over it, #4 make a video off that track, #5 put it 'on the air' in our small little city of Chicago, and #6 the chance that me_or_somebody_I_know just happened to be watching that program on TV, in my opinion, are very slim.

- The beat that was used was one I had on soundclick.com. It's about 1 minute, but in that 1 minute there's enough of a full phrase to re-loop into a full 3-4 minute song.

I'm really not taking it serious 'cause I just do beats just to do 'em, I'm in no way tryin' to be the next Dre/Storch/Timbo/etc...I really don't even sell my stuff and when I do, it's only for like $30.

So, if I was enthusiastic about seeing what I could do about these situations, what would be my options? My guy is already talking about 'takin it to the streets', and you know what that means, but I don't even think it's all that important, hence my weak enthusiasm regarding the matters at hand.

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[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Lawl Rofflemayo.

Ng

 

[SAG3 5,000+ posts]

sue his ***

 

[Satan]

thread started is full of shit

 

[Savstyle 10+ year member]

id be heated, either way he stole somthing from you, even if its just 30 bux thats 30 bux tha should be yours plus if that blows and he gets a name off of it, wouldnt rather be the one

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

thread started is full of shit

Sure is....these people, you know, how can they lay down a track & not even know the producer!! They must be full of shit.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

make sure he dosen't take credit for it

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Well if he ever did become something big. Then I would be claiming those beats as yours and get you sum of that money. But who knows. For now since it is nothing big I wouldnt worry about it. But that is just me.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

Well if he ever did become something big. Then I would be claiming those beats as yours and get you sum of that money. But who knows. For now since it is nothing big I wouldnt worry about it. But that is just me.

Right now I'm not really worried about any of these guys...they're garbage regardless. It's just a like "d/amn"; in the back of my head. I just wanna know the legalities of what I could do. I also don't know any of 'em or how to get in contact with them...(except for the album guy....who said he bought the beats from someone).

 

[Brock 5,000+ posts]

copyright your shit...and no i dont mean mailing it to yourself. send cds off and fill out the forms. then if someone jacks your shit all you have to do is wait until theyre making $$ off it and take them to court. shit like this happens everyday to 'soundclick' producers and theres nothing most of them can do about it.

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

either that, or tag your shit that you put out on soundclick. in every loop, put a 2-3 second tag phrase. only problem with that is it gets annoying after hearing a few times.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Omgz Guyz We No A Cilebarty!!!!11! U R So Kewl I Want Ur Autograf