Copyrighted Samples

[TACTIK]

I had a girl show me an Enya song she loved and I told her that the Fugees sampled it.
(http://www.whosampled.com/sample/13/Fugees-Ready-or-Not-Enya-Boadicea/)
She then told me how they got sued for $10,000 because they didn't clear the sample!

I am not concerned about licensing my songs with all of the samples in them yet...but if you are, check out this website:

http://blog.discmakers.com/2013/01/...=DMAudio&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=EA1304

 

[Fade]

I didn't know the Fugees never cleared it, that's crazy especially since that was such a popular song.

 

[Greg Savage]

I didn't know the Fugees never cleared it, that's crazy especially since that was such a popular song.

Sometimes it's cheaper to get sued than it is to clear the sample. Depends on the situation though. Dre did this often.

 

[Fade]

No doubt. Some of those samples are crazy expensive.

 

[TACTIK]

Yeah. I thought they would have gotten fined way over 100,000 since they were already making bank with their album

 

[TagYourBeats]

Sometimes it's cheaper to get sued than it is to clear the sample. Depends on the situation though. Dre did this often.

I heard that Dre hears something he likes and wants to use it, he gets a band/musician into his studio to re-play the same thing, but change it slightly. How true this is, I don't know, because I can't find any examples..

Getting samples cleared can be very time consuming, and often people will just say "no" (if you're trying to sample a classic Jazz song about love for your song about F'ing Hookers, for example, the current copyright owner may say no to protect the integrity of the song)...so if you just do it anyway then settle it in court, at least the song is out there.

$10,000 is extremely low, though...maybe it was a $10,000 fine plus royalties? That would make sense.

JC

 

[Greg Savage]

Who knows