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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

That occurred in the early days of sampling (which was an absolutely nightmare for publishers). It took a couple of years but Queen was eventually paid Artist and Publisher royalties, along with being added as songwriters.

After Ice Ice Baby and Tone Loc's sampling of Van Halen's Jamie's Crying, publishers began taking the unique step of not pay ANY publishing royalties to either the rapper/songwriter and the band/Artist that was sampled until Song Splits had been negotiated by all interested parties. In many cases, neither side was paid for years on end. In some cases (and I saw more than a few of these), Rapper/Composers that claimed to write their songs in their entirety were given $400-$500k advances, only to release an album that contained samples.

In those cases, the publisher was just out the dough, because no one was going to settle.

It was a nightmare.

Thanks for this. Is "sampling" the industry term for borrowing a riff or entire melody from another song and incorporating it into your own?

And believe me when I say that every word that you write about the music industry is news to me. I know absolutely nothing about it (as is probably obvious by now) and I thank you for your insight and patience!