I was recently in a local Chapters bookstore reading an article by Matthew Newton over at SPIN Magazine who asks, is sampling dying?
From the RZA speaking on new biz-opportunities for publishing and sample clearance, to Kanye West no longer using samples in his latest works and a court-case that would forever change the [...]

 
An interesting read over at the Standford Cyberlaw division.  Zohar Efroni writes that “The German Supreme Court (BGH) clarified last week that sampling does not infringe on copyright in the work from which samples were taken for the purpose of creating a new work.”
It’s always refreshing to see how sampling is being handled by the [...]

I stumbled upon this old article on USAToday.com that covers a court story in Nashville about them rappers and hip hop people who illegally steal and sample music (I know a couple of them).  It’s a very interesting article as they mention sampling snippets of music as well as the relation between digital sampling and popular music [...]