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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
Holy Shit. I'm a big supporter of remix culture, but I hold no fantasies that all previous rights holders were made whole.
There's shit ton that was repurposed without compensation. I've made my peace with it, but I don't claim righteousness.
EDIT: And yes, I'm aware Kirby is a Ginger Chewbacca
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We've gone through this before: Copyright law is Lyric and Melody. If those songs were published and copyrighted, the original rights holders
should have been compensated.
Now, I cannot claim with any accuracy that those songwriter in the video you provided were paid properly. What I can tell you is that since at least 1993, if there's a copyright/sample/whatever dispute, NO ONE gets paid until they're properly cleared.
Publishers usually work out all the details before songs are released on major labels and I'd imagine that if an Indie label released a record or song in which the label hadn't cleared the samples, they'd be slapped with an immediate injunction. Fortunately, that stuff doesn't happen to often any more.