Sampling is an art form in hip-hop. It is one of the founding conerstones to it's sound and should always remain that way. One enemy of this is Armen Boladian. If you are in the music industry and do not know who this man is, take a second to read these articles.
Jay-Z vs the Sample Troll thats Destroying Hip Hop from Hip Hop Elements.com
In the 1970s, Boladian and Bridgeport managed to seize most of the copyrights to Clinton's songs. How exactly they did so is highly disputed. However, in at least a few cases, Boladian assigned the copyrights to Bridgeport by writing a contract and then faking Clinton's signature (as described here). As Clinton put it in this interview, "he just stole 'em."
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“We've just been battling this for such a long time. So many have been settled because companies didn't want anything to do with it, and we knew we were right.” Armen Boladian quote
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Name That Note by in Forbes.com
New York hip-hop artist Pete Miser composes his tunes out of thousands of digital snippets of music, from Shostakovich to the soundtrack of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. When a couple of Miser's tunes were selected for the short-lived TV series The Handler on CBS, he had to rerecord them, minus the samples.
