Sampling has become a huge part of music production. However, you must choose a sample that matches other aspects of your song. Sampling has become one of the most influential strategies in modern ...

Music sampling in Nigeria: copyright ownership, sample clearance, licensing and royalty rights under the Copyright Act 2022.

Sampling can take your music to new creative heights, but without proper clearance it can also lead to takedowns, lost royalties, or lawsuits. Every sample involves two copyrights — the composition ...

Although music sampling—the reuse of previous music in a new song or piece—is a rich, centuries-old tradition, we seldom hear about its successes. On one hand, the mass media seems to have drawn a ...

Music-creation software company Output just launched an AI tool that generates free sample packs based on text prompts. These packs are royalty-free and include 30 samples that can be used in the ...

Mason Youngblood, a psychologist at City University of New York, has found a way to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people by studying music sampling used on commercially sold songs. In ...

"Swing Down, Sweet Chariot / Stop, and let me ride" ...And so the hook of the 1992 edition of Dr. Dre's "Let Me Ride" played on throughout radio airwaves and tape deck boom boxes throughout the nation ...

Dean Garfield, president and CEO, Information Technology Industry Council, Washington, D.C. Kembrew McLeod, associate professor, department of communication ...

Originating from boroughs like the Bronx, sample-based drill music is going viral and taking over New York rap. Here’s a guide to the rising subgenre.

Joanna Demers, assistant professor of music history and literature, University of Southern California Is the creative appropriation of previously recorded music theft? Or is that act, better known as ...