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

[Tommy Lee Jones]

shyt up until the Puff era sampling was a whole different game. Puff is part of the reason why sampling game got all fukked up. Once Hip Hop started making money then new sampling laws came into effect and labels started paying more attention to sampling. Some coincidence, huh.

 

[get these nets]

I don’t know how anyone who is a shark on Puff’s level forgets to clear a sample on one of Sting’s top 3 hits.

He probably rushed the song out to capitalize on memorialize BIg's passing rather than waiting for the sample to clear .


If Sting shook down Puffy for this amount, he must own Bruno Mars' entire catalogue.

 

[FluffyCorleone]

I don't think that's real.

 

[Houston911]

the sampling laws are racist...... cacs got rich making covers of black music but when hip hop came all of a sudden you can't repurpose a song or sample a 3-5 second loop without giving up all your royalties. I think Russell Simmons said he was gonna take the issue to the supreme court back in the day but probably didn't want the smoke




the label is supposed to clear the samples which makes it funny that it's always the artists who get sued for it

Racist as hell bro

 

[old pig]

Damn that must sting

lol...missed this comment lmao

 

[get these nets]

learn from history

or repeat it

 

[Houston911]

This song isn't even worth 730k a year at this point.

 

[DaddyFresh]

Sting is a beast when it comes to his chips.

https://www.radio.com/blogs/michael-cerio/juice-wrld-helped-put-stings-grandkids-through-college

Yeah he own the royalties to JuiceWorld biggest song. Can you imagine his bank account after the post death streams kicked in

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Sting was up there with Puff at the VMAs playing guitar like “good thing he ain’t check his mailbox yet”

 

[ORDER_66]

Diddy is a dumbass...

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

If anybody interested on the subject...watch this documentary

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Nas won

 

[Dwight Howard]

the sampling laws are racist...... cacs got rich making covers of black music but when hip hop came all of a sudden you can't repurpose a song or sample a 3-5 second loop without giving up all your royalties. I think Russell Simmons said he was gonna take the issue to the supreme court back in the day but probably didn't want the smoke




the label is supposed to clear the samples which makes it funny that it's always the artists who get sued for it

The label and the artist get sued. The artist get sued because copyright is split into two different rights, the right to perform and the right to reproduce. The artist get sued for performance. And whoever owns the royalties (usually the majority is owned by label) gets sued for the rest. I believe diddy owned the rights to these records. Regardless, the label usually covers this and accounts it against the artist so they may lose all royalties at the end of the day.

And I don't think copyright rules are racist at all. They originate far before rap really became as popular. There is a compulsory fee that an artist pays to use a sample but if you dont, you can be held liable for copyright infringement and that's where the original artist can take you to the bank.

 

[Reece]

Damn he made that shyt for Biggie too and he paying $700,000 a year for it now

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

You’d think by now black artists would have an unwritten rule not sample from white artists. It’s the bare minimum of group economics.