> generally it's such common practice to sample others' work when making music that suing for copyright claims is extremely rare compared to the prevalence of p

> generally it's such common practice to sample others' work when making music that suing for copyright claims is extremely rare compared to the prevalence of possibly infringing cases. While it's true that there's all kinds of music made by sampling other music, when a sample-heavy song starts to gain commercial momentum, copyright comes into harsh focus real fast - sometimes it's lawsuits, but more often there are licensing conversations had in order to avoid those lawsuits. Is it applied evenly? Definitely not, and this is the topic of a thousand longform blogs and multiple documentaries and articles and so on. For example - you may think that because you've never heard about EMI suing Danger Mouse over the Grey Album, that this was "innovation mostly free from copyright ... especially in hip-hop" - but just because nothing went to court doesn't mean there weren't a lot of conversations between lawyers, and agreements made around what exactly happened there.