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What can the artist do if they don’t have the money to pay for a sample?If they don’t have the money, they need to replay it or re-sing it and that eliminates two thirds of your cost. So that’s a big saving.
lol or you can run it through AI programming and reshuffle, reroll etc. paying for samples is going to go away.
I expected an article about Costco aisles.
I was expecting crime labs or maybe biology like genetics. But music copyright clearance problems (copyright is why we can't have nice things) is good too.
Fascinating article. It would be really interesting to see how things have changed in the intervening decade.
Things have gotten much easier in some cases. I have sampled and cleared 2 different songs on tracklib for a reasonable price for me (50 bucks plus 10% royalties). Bedroom producers can now release their music with samples without a crazy clearance fees in many cases. Some samples/artists will still be only available for those with the means to pay 4-5 figure sample fees, but I think that is more the exception than the rule now.