It's also easier, at least in the U.S., to do more liberal sampling when live than on recordings, since you don't have to clear the samples individually. Most m

It's also easier, at least in the U.S., to do more liberal sampling when live than on recordings, since you don't have to clear the samples individually. Most music venues have a blanket license for performance rights with the main rights organizations, which clears the rights for live use of just about anything: stuff like the venue playing a CD as background music during intermission, a band playing a cover song on stage, or a DJ playing tracks or remixing samples.