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The article presents an interview with Joanna Demers, assistant professor of music history and literature, University of Southern California. Demers offers her views on the clash between the music industry's stringent view of copyright and musicians inspired by old sounds. She says that although legal threats have largely killed off unauthorized sampling in pop music, a thriving resistance to cease and desist letters from record-company lawyers has formed on the fringes of today's music scene. Demers feel that it's musicians who have to decide whether they want their work to be sampled or not. Their decision operates under the European system of intellectual property.