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 ...

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

"Trap and drill music sampling the old school classics sucks. I have tried to listen to akina Ice Spice and some new Gen Z music with some 90s samples, but I just can't. Lots of bass and auto-tune and ...

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 ...

Heading into its homestretch, Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, examines “a musical revolution that was not only inspired by recording but born from its history: the art ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jared is attorney for music, entertainment, and digital media. AI companies like Suno and Udio are training on musicians' catalogs ...

The mere mention of Madonna conjures many images and associations: feminism, reinvention, Kabbala, the cone bra, and her many memorable performances. But today we have yet another thing to associate ...

Sure, the Dhurandhar franchise is star-studded. The bigger stars, however, are its screenplay, Aditya Dhar’s stylised ...

Lizzo called out music sampling laws as racially biased during a Million Dollaz Worth of Game interview and accused the system of criminalizing Hip-Hop’s roots. Lizzo called out music sampling laws ...