Plunderphonics is a vaguely defined musical genre, usually characterised as the “manipulating of other recognizable recordings (AKA samples) to create new songs.” The samples are pirated illegally, can come from any media (usually other songs) and be edited in any way. Theoretically, transformative “fair use” laws protect plunderphonic musicians from getting sued by record companies once they use their music, but record companies have always won any court cases regarding the matter, so the law is considered useless (e.g: Danger Mouse’s famous Grey Album mashed up a Beatles album with a Jay-Z one, and while it was liked by the artists, it was taken down by a copyright claim by EMI, the recording company who owns the Beatles’ music).