Clearing Samples

Do you still have to clear samples if they are all chopped up and not really recognizable ?

Yes, legally you have to clear all ya samples playa. But hey, if no one can recognize em, how you gonna get caught????

Just try to keep good notes, and be orginized with naming sample files.

Man, i leave all of that up to the artist......

Lord Toranaga wrote:Just try to keep good notes, and be orginized with naming sample files.

real talk......some of my sh*t I don't even remember where it came from.........that sux

Yes leagaly, blah blah blah...............
I think we all break the law here and there, j walk, litter(not me), smoke crack so your all good homie.

I wouldnt worry If your selling cds out of your trunk, you think somone will come asking for royalties.

But then again you never know people have been arrested for smoken crack so....

It depends on what your gonna do with the song I guess.

It doesn't really matter until you start making money off it, or get into the position to make money off it

if you look in the liner notes, it shows what samples are cleared after the song credits.

see how many samples premier clears. its funny cause you dont really see any. thats why he whyled out on moment of truth. cats were blowin his spot.

sensewondah wrote:if you look in the liner notes, it shows what samples are cleared after the song credits.

see how many samples premier clears. its funny cause you dont really see any. thats why he whyled out on moment of truth. cats were blowin his spot.

not really just becuz it is not posted don't mean itz not cleared...........be aware of your business

If its going to be for a commercial release, you can always roll the dice if you really believe noone will recognize it... But there's always that 50 year old cat who's out working in his yard, listening to the radio, who happened to be a hot session player from back in the day, and who has sh*t so ingrained in his brain that all he has to hear is one pluck of that guitar riff, piano chord or drum fill that he played 20 years ago for him to recognize it. Don't let his pockets be light. He's gonna make a phone call.

If there's a lawsuit, the label reverts all responsiblity to the producer.

ddot_SFV wrote:If its going to be for a commercial release, you can always roll the dice if you really believe noone will recognize it... But there's always that 50 year old cat who's out working in his yard, listening to the radio, who happened to be a hot session player from back in the day, and who has sh*t so ingrained in his brain that all he has to hear is one pluck of that guitar riff, piano chord or drum fill that he played 20 years ago for him to recognize it. Don't let his pockets be light. He's gonna make a phone call.

If there's a lawsuit, the label reverts all responsiblity to the producer.

tru......but in a lawsuit everybody is named in it.......2 examples:

1. That dude who claimed to compose "X"-Xzibit, named Xzibit,Dre,Scott Storch, And Loud Records in his suit....

2. That lady who DJ Quik stole her voice on "Addicted"-Truth Hurts, named DJ Quik,Dr. Dre,Aftermath Records,Interscope Records, and Universal Music Group in her suit for $100 million

I dont really care about that.....they wont sue u unless they smell theres something to get.Cats like us are in the best case just selling enough copies to get in what we paid for the manufacturing/printing and so on.

That "addicted" song?If it wouldnt be a single and was just a track on the album, that whole story would never pop out.they wouldnt even have noticed it.Its just that it was this big of a hit so that the record company ova there in india thought they can get more cash instead of just taking 60-70% of the earnings of the song.

They wanted the album off the shelves, they wanted to have extra cash(extra to all earnings of the record) because the song (thats what they said) had religious content.Now thats on some isht.Dj Quick recorded that sample from TV on VCR while he switched by accident to a channel from india(like that "zee TV" or how they call it), and seen a woman belly dancing to the song he sampled.What was that?A religious bellydance?

Askin for money from such a big hit?Yes.Try to contact aftermath, get a serious conversation, and get your sample clearance %.
Makin it such a big deal, trying to pull this whole album from the shelves , wanting 100 mil. from that?hell no.They went str8 to the media crying about how the "bad hip hop music stealing criminals" stole their music.The crazy thing is, they didnt really care about the song sampled that much...they prolly just made it look THAT dramatic to get even more cash outa there.

that song addicted is pure samples, even the breaks are straight jacked from a song. I was watchin this movie and I instantly recognise the beat. I forget which movie.

You don't clear the samples. That is the responsibility of the label releasing your music. You also don't have to worry about clearing a sample if you know you're not going to be pushing big units. If you're selling 100,000 and under, more likely than not, you won't have to clear your sample. (This is also considering you're not lifting hooks like Kanye and Puffy, and doing some actual creating with your chops/slices.)

I heard that Bobbito and MF Doom cleared the Scooby Doo ish for HEY, but it could be a lie, and he wasn't pushing over 100,000 units on Fondle 'Em. You gotta cover your back in case it does blow up, cause theyll want back royalties.