The Importance of Careful Musicianship

Unlike music licensing to do a cover right and sell a cover you don't have to have a sampling license this means that the holder of the copyright doesn't have any obligation to grant you permission. The original rights holder can basically create their own playing field they can decide the terms for clearing a sample or say no deal case in point to the settlement out of court with bowie and queen on ice ice baby. There are certain examples where artists who have been sampled and hasn't been cleared have pushed to the point of now they get every every bit of thatyou know money.