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I'm sure then that he paid for and licensed all his NBK samples, Star Wars samples, Prince samples, and Queen, and David Bowie, and Kiss, and and and.
by 1_2__3 10y ago
I'm sure then that he paid for and licensed all his NBK samples, Star Wars samples, Prince samples, and Queen, and David Bowie, and Kiss, and and and.
- k-mcgrady 10y agoIf these are samples he used in commercial tracks I'm sure he licensed them because if he didn't he'd have been sued out of existence by now.
- dri_ft 10y agoThings were different in the eighties. I think the precedent-setting anti-sampling lawsuits came about in the early nineties. The Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique was famously built from hundreds of unlicensed samples, and was one of the last albums that could be made that way, because shortly thereafter it became necessary to license samples.
- coldtea 10y agoWhether he did or not, sampling a track is different than downloading a track without compensating the artist and the production company.