There are normally two licenses that are required for a sample clearance: the license for the original musical composition (i.e. When it comes to sampling in music, artists and producers must go through a structural process of obtaining licenses to incorporate other works into their own. All that other bullsh** is here today and gone tomorrow…”Įarlier this year, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a major decision holding recording artist Aubrey “Drake” Graham’s sampling of Jimmy Smith as fair use.
