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If 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.
by k-mcgrady 10y ago
If 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.