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 ...

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

The practice of music sampling, which is the integration of pre-recorded sounds into new musical gestures, experienced a golden, unregulated age in the late 1980s that is almost unimaginable today.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that a phonogram producer can prevent another person from taking a sample, even if it is very short, and including it in another phonogram, ...

The Situation: In Case C‑590/23 (Pelham II), the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") has delivered a binding interpretation of the "pastiche" exception under Article 5 ...