French electro duo Justice have been accused of using a number of uncleared samples on their debut album by, er, Xavier De Rosnay from French electro duo Justice.
De Rosnay told MTV: "Say we use the 'In Da Club' hand clap - not even 50 Cent would notice. If you listen to 'Genesis,' the first track [on the album], there are samples of Slipknot, Queen and 50 Cent, but they are such short samples no one can recognise them. The ones from Slipknot, for example, are just tiny bits of the voice".
He added that they did get proper approval for samples that were recognisable, though: "On the album, we used three big samples that we had to clear, and all the rest are just impossible to recognise. We're using the very short samples to improve the sound, because we are just writing melodies on piano and then we are listing each note taken from other records, so we make a trade between those notes and the proper loops".