analogueboy wrote:I dont believe its all that remote an analogy. The point I was trying to make (though perhaps not very eloquently) was that by releasing a piece of music, an artist has put their creative work into the world. Now to me it seems unreasonable that having been rewarded once for their creativity an artist should expect a second payday based on the back of someone elses creativity.
You don't get rewarded once. you might get an advance and then some royalties. if you get airplay you get tiny bits of money, you need to sell loads of records and get loads of airplay to live off your music.
And suddenly you would give all your copyrights away because some guy has sampled you.
Here's another idea, you should pay him to thank him for sampling you
your analogy with the Dj don' t work because the Dj is paid to play some music once in a live situation (ie not that many people at the same time). If he's a good man, he'll fill the form so the artists he played get a bit of money.
But if you sample a track in your own track ,and you don't declare it, if that track gets played and sells, you'll get royalties but the artist whose work you've used won't get anything...And maybe he didn't get anything in the first place and you're getting much more than him. It's not like that all the time but that's one of the many possibilities
basically once you've struggled a lot to live off your music you'll have a clearer view on how it works
