Moses Pelham

Moses Pelham (born 24 February 1971 in Frankfurt) is a German rapper, singer and producer.

Pelham in 2019

In 1993, together with Thomas Hofmann in Frankfurt, he started the Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt. Pelham is a member of the German band Glashaus. In 2019, in a lawsuit against the German band Kraftwerk, Pelham lost a groundbreaking case before the European Court of Justice for unauthorised sampling.[1][2][3][4] The ruling means that samples which are recognisable infringe copyright law where no permission has been sought from the rightsholder. However, there is no infringement if the sample is unrecognisable. The case was referred back to the German court who gave the final decision.[5] The German court decided that the sample was recognisable, and therefore ultimately, Pelham lost his 20 year legal saga.[6]

Works

Albums
  • 1989: Raining Rhymes
  • 1992: The Bastard Lookin' 4 the Light (1992 produced, but first published in 2000)
  • 1994: Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt – Direkt aus Rödelheim (with Thomas Hofmann)
  • 1995: Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt – Live aus Rödelheim (with Thomas Hofmann)
  • 1996: Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt – Zurück nach Rödelheim (with Thomas Hofmann)
  • 1998: Geteiltes Leid I
  • 2004: Geteiltes Leid II
  • 2012: Geteiltes Leid III
  • 2017: Herz
  • 2020: Emuna
  • 2021: Nostalgie Tape

Singles
  • 1988: Ay-Ay-Ay (What We Do for Love) (with Rico Sparx)
  • 1988: Twilight Zone
  • 1989: Can This Be Love
  • 1989: Raining Rhymes
  • 1990: Muscles (with Harold Faltermeyer)
  • 1998: Hartreim Saga
  • 1998: Schnaps für alle
  • 1999: Skillz (with Illmat!c & Xavier Naidoo)
  • 1999: Mein Glück
  • 2000: Bonnie & Clyde 2000 (with Cora E.)
  • 2004: Ein schöner Tag
  • 2004: 77 Minutes of Strugglin (with Illmat!c & Kool Savas)
  • 2006: Gott liebt mich
  • 2009: Strugglin' (2009 ISAS Remix) (with Illmat!c, Kool Savas & Cassandra Steen)
  • 2012: Für die Ewigkeit
  • 2019: Notaufnahme
  • 2020: Weiße Fahne
  • 2020: Wunder (with Faiz Mangat)
  • 2020: Juli
  • 2020: Emuna (acoustic) (with Stefanie Kloß)
  • 2020: Backstein
  • 2020: Du
  • 2021: Lappen wie Du

References
  1. "CJEU Ruling in Pelham v. Hutter : If Sample Recognizable, then It Infringes, No Matter How Small!". 21 August 2019.
  2. Spiegel.de: Moses Pelham und Kratwerk vor Gericht, Eugh Urteil zu Samling, Sampling ist gestattet (in German)
  3. Spiegel.de: Sample-Streit wird Europäischem Gerichtshof vorgelegt, Kraftwerk vs Pelham
  4. Welt.de: Moses P. gewinnt jahrelangen Rechtsstreit um Musiksampling (in German) 29 June 2019
  5. "CURIA - Documents".
  6. BGH, Judgment of 30.04.2020, I ZR 115/16 (‘Metall auf Metall IV'), DE:BGH:2020:300420UIZR115.16.0, para. 30-31.
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