Diddy Has Paid Sting $2,000 Per Day for Failing to Clear Sample; Payments End in 2053

[old pig]

I don’t give a shyt. I skimmed through the article fukk nikka

that was 2 days ago...don’t care anymore

 

[L&HH]

And Diddy is supposed to be this business genius

Let me ask you something if I told you right now you could sample a popular song. The song will be a top 5 smash record. You won’t make any money off the direct sales of the song. But it will attract listeners to other songs on your album that you will make money off. You’ll also tour the world making $100k+ a show performing the song. You’ll also have all types of companies paying you to promote their product in the music video of the song. Are you telling me you would not take that just because you’re not making any money directly from the song?

 

[joeychizzle]

Stop sampling sting

 

[ThrobbingHood]

BTW he cleared the sample on Nas' The Message because he loved Illmatic. No lie.

Nas the goat.

 

[Dorian Breh]

that decision was actually some bullshyt though, diddy could've won that case with the use of the fair use doctrine.

Although a fair use issue, Combs and Bad Boy never raised the legal concept of the fair use doctrine in their defense.[9] This decision was questioned by some legal experts: Anthony Falzone of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School criticized Combs and Bad Boy for not defending the legality of sampling and suggested that they might have refused to raise such a defense because they feared it could later imperil their control over their own music

So... Bad Boy decided it'd be better to pay Sting than risk future musicians making a come up by sampling Bad Boy records?

Talk about crabs in a barrel...

 

[Street Knowledge]

Damn that must sting

 

[Alvin]

So... Bad Boy decided it'd be better to pay Sting than risk future musicians making a come up by sampling Bad Boy records?

Talk about crabs in a barrel...

Nah ready to die was different, Bridgeport and someone else

 

[ThrobbingHood]

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Puff don’t care because sting only getting money from the spins for that particular song.. Puff got nikkas publishing and royalties locked up that 2K a day ain’t even registering on his radar

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Streaming changed the game. These artists were getting peanuts, so they’re all selling their catalogues. Crazy how much technology has changed the music industry.

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

I thought streaming could empower artists when it first became a thing, instead these artists are getting raped even harder. Music execs are some of the worst people to exist in show business.

 

[Swirv]

Lot of people with deep catalogs are cashing out. I heard on npr that old music is selling more than new music. Kind of wish the artists would hold on and let the labels fry. Don’t blame em tho, hundreds of millions dangling in your face is pretty tempting.

 

[Savvir]

They performed the damn song together in 1997. How the fukk was this an oversight?

Sting wanted the song to really pop
More royalties for him lol

 

[Cladyclad]

Puff don’t care because sting only getting money from the spins for that particular song.. Puff got nikkas publishing and royalties locked up that 2K a day ain’t even registering on his radar

2k a day is over 40 million