Sample clearance means getting legal permission to use someone else’s work – and this applies to both sides of the copyright:
1. The master recording (owned by a label, artist, or producer)
2. The composition (owned by writers and publishers)
Truelove Music is frequently involved in helping our writers to clear samples, and we also are frequently approached by third parties to clear samples from our writers’ catalogues.
There is no hard and fast rule as to the final agreed terms of a sample clearance. They are often rejected. Sometimes someone may demand 100% for clearing a three word hook. Some others might demand only 10%.
