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How to Sample Music Without Getting Sued: The Curious Case of the Most Controversial Copyright

Using samples—snippets of someone else’s copyrighted material in your music—can be a bit of a legal grey area, but for years artists from nearly every genre have done it.

One of the first examples can be traced back to 1956 and the novelty song “The Flying Saucer” by Buchanan and Read more...

Protecting Your Creative Rights: A Musician’s Primer on Copyright and Publishing

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably long dreamed of having a career in music. The bright lights. The screaming fans. The fortune. The fame. The paperwork…

Yeah, no one ever talks about that last part.

There’s a lot of administrative work that goes into monetizing music at a large scale. Read more...

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