The Copyright Ramifications of Sampling

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Mark Goldstein
Mark Goldstein is Clinical Professor of Music Industry at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, and former Vice President of Business Affairs at Warner Bros. Records, from which he retired in 2004 to teach full time. Prior to his time at Warner Bros., he worked in private practice and for other record labels. He has published articles on the business side of music, and occasionally guest-lectures on this subject.

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Mark Goldstein, Clinical Professor of Music Industry at USC’s Thornton School and former VP of Business Affairs at Warner Bros. Records, discusses sampling - what it is, how it works, and the legal consequences of using any part of a pre-existing copyrighted recording in your own work. He discusses his own history working at Warner Bros., and recalls some instances in which artists found themselves having to pay a large amount of money for sampling a small piece of a work. He also clarifies the difference between a live layering of songs in a performance and sampling on a recording, and describes when a compulsory license is enough to clear a sample and when it is not.

Shoot Date: November 2007