> A sample is using a literal cut-and-paste of a section of another copyrighted work and re-selling it directly "re-selling it directly" is not the usual case.

> A sample is using a literal cut-and-paste of a section of another copyrighted work and re-selling it directly "re-selling it directly" is not the usual case. The sample is just the extracted piece, while the practice called sampling is incorporating the piece into a new work [1]: > In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording. For example, hip hop is a genre which grew around sampling [1]. Sampling isn't necessarily fair use, but can be [1]. Reselling an extracted piece of a song almost certainly isn't fair use. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)