Good shit DJ Pain 1. My lack of knowledge on this had caused me to stop making sample beats about 2 years ago. I made 1 yesterday for the 1st time since due to my recent equipment upgrades and switch to using beat machines instead of only using a midi keyboard. Long story short I was skeptical of putting these beats on my website for sale in fear of facing lawsuits etc. Not anymore, uploading all my sample beats now. Salute G!
I totally get what you're saying and it does make sense hence why some artists, when releasing an album, have to wait for those songs to get cleared and sometimes just release the album with taking the song off and maybe releasing it at a later time. So for the producers making music without artists like some edm producers, when they sample, then that's when a producer have to get clearance because it's them who are getting the track published?
+DJ Pain 1 oh ok, think my brain's doing too much thinking to have missed that part. I really do appreciate the knowledge you spread. And also, how does one arm their self with the knowledge such as the the things you usually go over(sample clearing, copyrighting, just the legal side of music)? Does one take classes on it, read books about it or simply have to surf the web?
+Frank Dooley Check out Amir said The Art Of Sampling it has a lot on the law on sampling and breaks it down, great resource and there's usually a lot of what's in his books BeatTips manual and Art of on his sites for free www.theartofsamplingblog.com/store.html but man you can't beat all that knowledge for 5 dollars and BeatTips manual for 10 dollars Ebook. I don't have any affiliation with them just like to pass on the knowledge
Do the same rules apply for leasing beats? Or are you only talking about exclusive rights? Sorry if the question sounds dumb lol, I appreciate the knowledge fam!
I make many beats that have samples - now, if i was to use one of my beats i sampled, make a track out of it by rappin to it, publish it on soundcloud, and monetize it, would i make money from it????
I have watched the other videos, but you just answered one of my follow up questions .. " Is it Illegal to see a sampled beat to a party " I understand they have to clear the sample. But my concern was making money off of some one else's music.. .. .but it makes total sense to me that its the final product of the SONG that really counts , not the beat itself!.. " THE PUBLISHED MATERIAL" Good stuff man! thanks!!
So I have a catalogue of hundreds of sampled beats from various songs I was digging in 00' , some from cd's, some from vinyl , some songs that I sampled I can't even find on the internet, or have very hard time to find them... I am mixing engineer primarily, but started as a producer 25 years ago, and basically stop producing like 15 years ago because I got full time into mixing... And I wanted to make use of those hundreds beats, improve them a bit, put them on YT and beatstar for leases etc... For some released productions of mine the labels were taking care about clearance. But ,now reading all of this with sample clearance and stuff, I am not really sure, how can I lease a beat containing a sample (known or unkown) to an indie artist who wants to record its music and distribute it through Spotify without him getting in trouble...
one way i dont forget is to name ur beat the artist/title...i do this all the time...then i finally upload it i change the name to whatever...but in my files its still named by the sample i used
+Triple AAA true, but I think some ppl wit a MPC just go in on the beat and forget to label it... just a good practice even tho it might mess up ur workflow
Can I sell a sampled beat on airbit or on beat stars? If not then should I put a disclaimer / notice on my beat vids that the beat is sampled selling it on my own ?
what if I'm not sampling something from songs but for example the voice of a news report? do I have to clear that as a publishing producer? and how do I clear that?
Thank you, I’m on that journey so you just freed my ass from a whole bunch of nonsense.. If I’m selling on Beatstars I can just put the details in the description E.g This beat contains samples from (name of song, Artist name if known) ?
Thank you for the knowledge, Unless you make a ton of cash, I believe that labels don't go for your neck when it comes to sampling their artist, besides you can always use Creative Common which is probly the future of free creativity
Ok so this may seem like stupid questions BUUUHT: is clearing samples a seperate thing to buying a royalty free sample pack that has a license txt? if i buy a Royalty Free sample pack from say Ghosthack or WAProductions where it says i can use the the samples to make music commercially are those samples considered cleared? does clearing a sample actually apply to these or does it just apply to when someone goes crate digging and takes from a song?
The internet has me so confused i sample also make my own but i sell none because nothing is clear and i don't expect to make a million i just want to help people maybe less fortunate
IF a producer made the mistake of clearing a sample (because they didn't know any better before this video), I would suggest that you double... no, TRIPLE the price when you sell it. It's just another perk that raises the value of that beat. You did them a favor. All is not lost
SMFH. It doesn't raise the value at all. The sample has to be re-cleared once a song is recorded to it. The lyrics were not authorized; only the beat was. Now that it's being released by a totally different entity in a different form, with a different name, possibly with objectionable lyrical content, you have to go through the clearance process again.
So Different platforms would let you Upload Beats to there platform with uncleared Samples! Because I use samples sometimes I chop them up sometimes I don't!
@@DJPain1 Word! But when you do it right from the start you don't have too go back and do it Over! In my case I'm gonna Make the Sample Based Music 🎶 and deal with Clearing it if the song blows up! I'm making Beats so really they not worrying about it!
Dude you're doing a great thing for aspiring producers in helping clear up some of the myths regarding sample clearance. I truly thank you big time for your work, and hope I speak for a good number of fellow beat-makers in doing so. Quick question: do you have any template beat-selling contracts which address sample-based beats? I've started shopping my beats recently and just want to make sure I'm covered before making any official transactions, nah mean? Thanks again.
Contracts aren't really my problem. The labels are buying the track, so they are the ones who should present a contract to me with the terms of their purchase.
+DJ Pain 1 right. I guess what I was trying to ask was if you publish through a distribution company like cdbaby are you in fact still the publisher? Or are they? I'm just trying to figure out if there's anyway of putting a project on streaming services without clearing all the samples.
CutlassBeatz cd baby has a team specifically to analyze it and let you know if you have infringed someone. So I guess you could do it but you might be held accountable if they sue you....
So in all you can't upload a sampled beat to youtube and make adsense money from it. And u can't sell leases of sampled beats but u can sell an exclusive sampled beat if a major label wonna buy correct. With youtube they can take your video down if a sample is in it. They do it all the time.
IF MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATIONS LIKE BEST BUY OR WALMART CAN SELL OUR PRIVATE INFORMATION WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION I FEEL PRODUCERS SHOULDNT HAVE TO CLEAR SAMPLES . SAME DIFFERENCE
I read the article and watched this and unless I am confused you have to clear them. Not everyone has a label to do these things if that's where you are going.
He’s saying only if you’re going to publish the beat. You can pitch it to the artist but the label will have to clear it before it gets released. Normally should be charged against the artist’s advance/ royalties from what I’ve acquired.
ok, so heres a question I have yet to put in the universe about this subject. Before I release my free instrumental mixtape, I send it in for copyright, then, because I am a member of a PRO, I submit it for publishing. Should I include all the sample info then or wait to see if it gets picked up by an artist to be put out commercially?
You are publishing it, so you are technically breaking copyright law by releasing it. Will you get sued? I'm no lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt, but no, you won't.
i liked the article...i'm still a little curious about mixtape clearing though. u take 4 example Curren$y who almost every other song is a sample. i mean he does have a bit of a name nowadays but clearly hes gotta be getting these cleared.... right??
Bailey Bronson smoking weed in a video is regular shyt. who dont smoke on cam these days. not to mention its joints which u cant hold that against nobody in court
DJ Pain 1 but what i was asking is are you saying they will not come at me if i sell my song on itunes with a sampled beat thats all i was asking i dont know why i keep getting those online tuff sarcastic response from you im not one of those niggaz u can just get all cocky with word to god this the second or third time you did that cannon and i never got that way with u once
If you don't have money and you make a beat ok say you just made a banger for little jojos crew down the street LOL man why in the world would you even worry about trying to clear anything if you have no money⁉️😂 it would be a different story if you was Kanye or Pharrell because you got something to lose, but man the worst that can happen is lil jojos mixtape blows up and you get paid off it and pay money on the sample or your other option is to try and clear every beat you make with a sample and I said try because it's gonna take like over 500 for someone to just tell you if it can even be cleared or not ha not to clear it. So long story short in my opinion sample for lil jojo until your hearts content my friend because jojo might just blow lil jojo just might go ham and cheese but then again lil jojos rap name is lil jojo so yeah😂👊👍👍 Happy Diggin my dudes
+DJ Pain 1 Naw I'm agreeing with you saying I wouldn't worry about it in my opinion on selling a sampled beat, Like being worried about trying to get all your samples cleared is what I was saying sorry if it came out the wrong way you can delete the post. Sorry if I said some wrong Info, my only point was about sampling in general because I know a lot of BeatMakers that won't sample because they think they gotta clear it before it reaches anyone
@@DiscipleDye but you still missed his point... sample clearance is only necessary if the beat has lyrics on it (making it into a full song) AND is being published by an artist. Nothing to do with lil jojo...
I would prefer it’s cleared first! But if not NO PROBLEM, NO PUBLISHING OR ROYALTIES, IF I GOTTA PAY TO CLEAR A SAMPLE! Not 1 point. Just the fee for the beat!
Producers keep posting this video in groups. I got respect for Pain 1. But he is not a copyright lawyer. He also works for BeatStars. Are you leasing the beat commercially? Are you making money off of uncleared samples? In no way can you lease something out you don't actually own. Very simple solution. Call a copyright/entertainment lawyer and ask them if you can sell uncleared samples in a marketplace using BeatStars contracts. That's who you ask for legal advice.
Yo somebody took my melody and sampled me without my permission. He wouldnt even give me any credit for that after i asked im for that. Heres my Version: ua-cam.com/video/ZLgYBZ5zazM/v-deo.html Heres his version: ua-cam.com/video/mFPigTuSiEw/v-deo.html What should I do?
I like your personality from your videos. You seem humble. However, regarding this topic, are you meaning to tell me you all as producers can make free money off of someone else's labour by sampling THEIR content and then turn around and offer contracts that lock us artist into paying you all "royalties" as "song writers" because you "wrote the SAMPLED beat" even once we release the song? And you all as producers never turn around and offer the same song writers share you expect to receive from us to the same people you stole or "sampled" their material? That seems very hypocritical. It seems like you producers are trying to get away with the same things you expect us artist to abide by to you, but then get upset when artist give you the same treatment you gave those you sampled/stole from with no permissions.
Labels, people, producers, artists, individuals, etc. should (need) clear samples before publishing and selling the music commercially, in order to eliminate copyright infringement
Good shit DJ Pain 1. My lack of knowledge on this had caused me to stop making sample beats about 2 years ago. I made 1 yesterday for the 1st time since due to my recent equipment upgrades and switch to using beat machines instead of only using a midi keyboard. Long story short I was skeptical of putting these beats on my website for sale in fear of facing lawsuits etc. Not anymore, uploading all my sample beats now. Salute G!
SF Traxx Exactly he knew that
As always, good info
Props on the shirt. Speaking without saying a word!
I've never felt more empowered to work on the type of beats I love working on, thanks my man!!!
I totally get what you're saying and it does make sense hence why some artists, when releasing an album, have to wait for those songs to get cleared and sometimes just release the album with taking the song off and maybe releasing it at a later time. So for the producers making music without artists like some edm producers, when they sample, then that's when a producer have to get clearance because it's them who are getting the track published?
I said in the video, "The entity who plans on publishing the material...has to clear those samples." That answers your question.
+DJ Pain 1 oh ok, think my brain's doing too much thinking to have missed that part. I really do appreciate the knowledge you spread. And also, how does one arm their self with the knowledge such as the the things you usually go over(sample clearing, copyrighting, just the legal side of music)? Does one take classes on it, read books about it or simply have to surf the web?
You didn't list a single bad option
+DJ Pain 1 Big thanks
+Frank Dooley Check out Amir said The Art Of Sampling it has a lot on the law on sampling and breaks it down, great resource and there's usually a lot of what's in his books BeatTips manual and Art of on his sites for free www.theartofsamplingblog.com/store.html but man you can't beat all that knowledge for 5 dollars and BeatTips manual for 10 dollars Ebook. I don't have any affiliation with them just like to pass on the knowledge
Do the same rules apply for leasing beats? Or are you only talking about exclusive rights? Sorry if the question sounds dumb lol, I appreciate the knowledge fam!
I make many beats that have samples - now, if i was to use one of my beats i sampled, make a track out of it by rappin to it, publish it on soundcloud, and monetize it, would i make money from it????
Yes thank you for putting out this video. Producers need education.
I have watched the other videos, but you just answered one of my follow up questions .. " Is it Illegal to see a sampled beat to a party " I understand they have to clear the sample. But my concern was making money off of some one else's music.. .. .but it makes total sense to me that its the final product of the SONG that really counts , not the beat itself!.. " THE PUBLISHED MATERIAL" Good stuff man! thanks!!
So I have a catalogue of hundreds of sampled beats from various songs I was digging in 00' , some from cd's, some from vinyl , some songs that I sampled I can't even find on the internet, or have very hard time to find them... I am mixing engineer primarily, but started as a producer 25 years ago, and basically stop producing like 15 years ago because I got full time into mixing... And I wanted to make use of those hundreds beats, improve them a bit, put them on YT and beatstar for leases etc...
For some released productions of mine the labels were taking care about clearance.
But ,now reading all of this with sample clearance and stuff, I am not really sure, how can I lease a beat containing a sample (known or unkown) to an indie artist who wants to record its music and distribute it through Spotify without him getting in trouble...
Thank u for all of ur insight!!!!! You are definitely an inspiration to the production community!!!!
its always good to keep a good studio log anyways, cuz some ppl forgot who they sampled
one way i dont forget is to name ur beat the artist/title...i do this all the time...then i finally upload it i change the name to whatever...but in my files its still named by the sample i used
+Triple AAA true, but I think some ppl wit a MPC just go in on the beat and forget to label it... just a good practice even tho it might mess up ur workflow
Makes total sense. Thank you!
Man I love you for this one!
Can I sell a sampled beat on airbit or on beat stars? If not then should I put a disclaimer / notice on my beat vids that the beat is sampled selling it on my own ?
Sample with impunity 😈🔥
what if I'm not sampling something from songs but for example the voice of a news report? do I have to clear that as a publishing producer? and how do I clear that?
Thanks man, good input
Thank you, I’m on that journey so you just freed my ass from a whole bunch of nonsense..
If I’m selling on Beatstars I can just put the details in the description E.g
This beat contains samples from (name of song, Artist name if known) ?
Thanks so much for sharing this information.
And as always, appreciate the info.
Can I copyright my sampled beats? Can I put it on bmi without clearing it?
Thank you for the knowledge, Unless you make a ton of cash, I believe that labels don't go for your neck when it comes to sampling their artist, besides you can always use Creative Common which is probly the future of free creativity
smh, please don't assert that you can use creative commons when you sample a song that came out in the 70s
Ok so this may seem like stupid questions BUUUHT:
is clearing samples a seperate thing to buying a royalty free sample pack that has a license txt?
if i buy a Royalty Free sample pack from say Ghosthack or WAProductions where it says i can use the the samples to make music commercially are those samples considered cleared? does clearing a sample actually apply to these or does it just apply to when someone goes crate digging and takes from a song?
They still dont know
im about to sample that intro
Can you copywrite a beat that you have lost sample information to ? Does it matter if you that information example using a loop from a unknown kit?
Told people this!!
Thanks Pain 1. I look up to your informative videos.
The internet has me so confused i sample also make my own but i sell none because nothing is clear and i don't expect to make a million i just want to help people maybe less fortunate
IF a producer made the mistake of clearing a sample (because they didn't know any better before this video), I would suggest that you double... no, TRIPLE the price when you sell it. It's just another perk that raises the value of that beat. You did them a favor. All is not lost
SMFH. It doesn't raise the value at all. The sample has to be re-cleared once a song is recorded to it. The lyrics were not authorized; only the beat was.
Now that it's being released by a totally different entity in a different form, with a different name, possibly with objectionable lyrical content, you have to go through the clearance process again.
But if I sample from a royalty free jazz song on UA-cam?
So Different platforms would let you Upload Beats to there platform with uncleared Samples! Because I use samples sometimes I chop them up sometimes I don't!
You can get away with breaking laws, yes, people do it every day
@@DJPain1 Word! But when you do it right from the start you don't have too go back and do it Over! In my case I'm gonna Make the Sample Based Music 🎶 and deal with Clearing it if the song blows up! I'm making Beats so really they not worrying about it!
Great VIDEO dude very informative
Dude you're doing a great thing for aspiring producers in helping clear up some of the myths regarding sample clearance. I truly thank you big time for your work, and hope I speak for a good number of fellow beat-makers in doing so. Quick question: do you have any template beat-selling contracts which address sample-based beats? I've started shopping my beats recently and just want to make sure I'm covered before making any official transactions, nah mean? Thanks again.
Contracts aren't really my problem. The labels are buying the track, so they are the ones who should present a contract to me with the terms of their purchase.
What about a producer publishing a beat tape to iTunes? Does that legally require sample clearance?
I said in the video, "The entity who plans on publishing the material...has to clear those samples." That answers your question.
+DJ Pain 1 right. I guess what I was trying to ask was if you publish through a distribution company like cdbaby are you in fact still the publisher? Or are they? I'm just trying to figure out if there's anyway of putting a project on streaming services without clearing all the samples.
You do it and hope you don't get caught, like all other low-risk crime.
+DJ Pain 1 haha fuckin A!! Thanks for all the videos!
CutlassBeatz cd baby has a team specifically to analyze it and let you know if you have infringed someone. So I guess you could do it but you might be held accountable if they sue you....
So in all you can't upload a sampled beat to youtube and make adsense money from it. And u can't sell leases of sampled beats but u can sell an exclusive sampled beat if a major label wonna buy correct. With youtube they can take your video down if a sample is in it. They do it all the time.
IF MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATIONS LIKE BEST BUY OR WALMART CAN SELL OUR PRIVATE INFORMATION WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION I FEEL PRODUCERS SHOULDNT HAVE TO CLEAR SAMPLES . SAME DIFFERENCE
Great video thanks 🙏
Thank you man
I read the article and watched this and unless I am confused you have to clear them. Not everyone has a label to do these things if that's where you are going.
He’s saying only if you’re going to publish the beat. You can pitch it to the artist but the label will have to clear it before it gets released. Normally should be charged against the artist’s advance/ royalties from what I’ve acquired.
This is good news holy shit
Makes me say then why are people getting flagged on UA-cam for using the same loop?
Has nothing to fo with sample clearance though, you know that.
From what I’m getting from this is because the law is regarding records. But since UA-cam is video, that requires a license. Like a sync license....
@@youngkey3051 nope. Its because contentID doesn't take licensing into account; it is designed to flag things that sound the same and nothing more.
Preach!
ok, so heres a question I have yet to put in the universe about this subject. Before I release my free instrumental mixtape, I send it in for copyright, then, because I am a member of a PRO, I submit it for publishing. Should I include all the sample info then or wait to see if it gets picked up by an artist to be put out commercially?
You are publishing it, so you are technically breaking copyright law by releasing it. Will you get sued? I'm no lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt, but no, you won't.
by this vid i felt now was a good time to inquire.
i liked the article...i'm still a little curious about mixtape clearing though. u take 4 example Curren$y who almost every other song is a sample. i mean he does have a bit of a name nowadays but clearly hes gotta be getting these cleared.... right??
He also smoke a lot of weed in his video lol he used to the lawlessness
Bailey Bronson smoking weed in a video is regular shyt. who dont smoke on cam these days. not to mention its joints which u cant hold that against nobody in court
Bailey Bronson weed is legal these days
so is it tru i can sell my song on itunes with a slight sample from whitney on there without their people comi g after me
Do people even watch my videos?
DJ Pain 1 lol im just confirming bro yes ive watched it lol dont swing on a brother lol
DJ Pain 1 but what i was asking is are you saying they will not come at me if i sell my song on itunes with a sampled beat thats all i was asking i dont know why i keep getting those online tuff sarcastic response from you im not one of those niggaz u can just get all cocky with word to god this the second or third time you did that cannon and i never got that way with u once
If you don't have money and you make a beat ok say you just made a banger for little jojos crew down the street LOL man why in the world would you even worry about trying to clear anything if you have no money⁉️😂 it would be a different story if you was Kanye or Pharrell because you got something to lose, but man the worst that can happen is lil jojos mixtape blows up and you get paid off it and pay money on the sample or your other option is to try and clear every beat you make with a sample and I said try because it's gonna take like over 500 for someone to just tell you if it can even be cleared or not ha not to clear it. So long story short in my opinion sample for lil jojo until your hearts content my friend because jojo might just blow lil jojo just might go ham and cheese but then again lil jojos rap name is lil jojo so yeah😂👊👍👍 Happy Diggin my dudes
missed the point of the video
+DJ Pain 1 Naw I'm agreeing with you saying I wouldn't worry about it in my opinion on selling a sampled beat, Like being worried about trying to get all your samples cleared is what I was saying sorry if it came out the wrong way you can delete the post. Sorry if I said some wrong Info, my only point was about sampling in general because I know a lot of BeatMakers that won't sample because they think they gotta clear it before it reaches anyone
@@DiscipleDye but you still missed his point... sample clearance is only necessary if the beat has lyrics on it (making it into a full song) AND is being published by an artist. Nothing to do with lil jojo...
did that shirt predict the George Floyd i can't breathe quote?? or was it already a quote before Floyd?
Eric Garner’s murder is what spawned the ‘I can’t breathe’ phrase
@@DJPain1 oh bet
I would prefer it’s cleared first! But if not NO PROBLEM, NO PUBLISHING OR ROYALTIES, IF I GOTTA PAY TO CLEAR A SAMPLE! Not 1 point. Just the fee for the beat!
All my beats has samples
they does?
Producers keep posting this video in groups. I got respect for Pain 1. But he is not a copyright lawyer. He also works for BeatStars. Are you leasing the beat commercially? Are you making money off of uncleared samples? In no way can you lease something out you don't actually own.
Very simple solution. Call a copyright/entertainment lawyer and ask them if you can sell uncleared samples in a marketplace using BeatStars contracts. That's who you ask for legal advice.
That’s good advice. I stand on everything I said in this video though.
#Facts #Salute
Yo somebody took my melody and sampled me without my permission. He wouldnt even give me any credit for that after i asked im for that.
Heres my Version: ua-cam.com/video/ZLgYBZ5zazM/v-deo.html
Heres his version: ua-cam.com/video/mFPigTuSiEw/v-deo.html
What should I do?
I like your personality from your videos. You seem humble.
However, regarding this topic, are you meaning to tell me you all as producers can make free money off of someone else's labour by sampling THEIR content and then turn around and offer contracts that lock us artist into paying you all "royalties" as "song writers" because you "wrote the SAMPLED beat" even once we release the song?
And you all as producers never turn around and offer the same song writers share you expect to receive from us to the same people you stole or "sampled" their material?
That seems very hypocritical.
It seems like you producers are trying to get away with the same things you expect us artist to abide by to you, but then get upset when artist give you the same treatment you gave those you sampled/stole from with no permissions.
You know your shhh
I found it 😂
Just make the sample unrecognizable but if you don't want to, fuck it. It's art
Labels, people, producers, artists, individuals, etc. should (need) clear samples before publishing and selling the music commercially, in order to eliminate copyright infringement
Are you sure? Can you link some info
So you didnt listen
How’s it been going big bro? I gotta hit u up bro ASAP!!! Ima send u an email! It’s been a minute for us!!!🎶🦾💯🦍