> I gather Kingsway is relying mostly on its artists’ reputation for being willing to license for sampling on reasonable terms. I don’t see any guarantee that s

> I gather Kingsway is relying mostly on its artists’ reputation for being willing to license for sampling on reasonable terms. I don’t see any guarantee that samples will be licensed, much less on any particular terms. There have been instances when artists disagreed with the use of their work, and they're kinda sensitive to that. For example some artists try to steer clear from politics, and so for example the Rolling Stones requested Angela Merkel's election campaign to not use "Angie" (whatever they were thinking when deciding to use that song in the first place given the lyrics, but that's a different topic :-) ) There are other situations in sampling and other forms of creative reuse where artists prefer to have the final say who gets to reuse their work and in which context, and such a setup is quite suitable for that. The software equivalent might be various "ethical licenses" (https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/ https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/) ranging from "Don't use the software to build missiles" to "The only corporate structure that may use this code is cooperatives", although they often predefine the terms instead of falling back to "call us and we'll see."