A landmark ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU has delivered a blow to Kraftwerk in the group's decades-long copyright battle with German producer Moses Pelham over a two-second sample from the group's 1977 song Metall auf Metall.
Pelham sampled, time-stretched and looped a brief fragment of drums from Metall auf Metall on Sabrina Setlur's 1997 single Nur Mir without permission, prompting Kraftwerk to take legal action.
