Music sampling in Nigeria: copyright ownership, sample clearance, licensing and royalty rights under the Copyright Act 2022.

Although music sampling—the reuse of previous music in a new song or piece—is a rich, centuries-old tradition, we seldom hear about its successes. On one hand, the mass media seems to have drawn a ...

Dean Garfield, president and CEO, Information Technology Industry Council, Washington, D.C. Kembrew McLeod, associate professor, department of communication ...

The musical output of George Clinton hinges on an unimpeachable run from 1970 to 1982. During that time, Clinton slapped together doped-up, proto-disco like “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the ...

Mason Youngblood, a psychologist at City University of New York, has found a way to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people by studying music sampling used on commercially sold songs. In ...

The mere mention of Madonna conjures many images and associations: feminism, reinvention, Kabbala, the cone bra, and her many memorable performances. But today we have yet another thing to associate ...