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Have they ever gotten into trouble for using samples of other peoples' music?
No, but it's gone the other way. We've sued other people for sampling the Residents' music.
Who had used the Residents' music?
Levi's and T-Mobile.
Really!?
Yeah, we got a pretty large settlement from it!
What did they take? What samples?
Levi's used a piece of music from the first Residents album in a commercial. You may have seen it - it was a pretty big campaign. It had these buffalo running through the streets of New York.
How was this brought to the Residents' attention? Did they see the actual commercial?
Yeah. I remember I was sitting at home watching TV and that commercial came on, and I knew I recognized the piece of music, and suddenly it hit me - "Wait a minute!" So luckily I had TiVO going, so I captured that spot and sent it off to the appropriate contacts and lawyers and we got everything sorted out.
Oh man! Just sitting there, "Hey! That's us!" What song was it?
Oh... I don't remember the name of it.
That's crazy that they thought they could get away with that.
Well, I'm sure it wasn't Levi's themselves. It was just their composer.
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