Nicki Minaj pays $450k for sampled track

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/tracy-chapman-wins-450k-in-copyright-suit-against-nicki-minaj

This sets up what it cost to use someone else’s music.
Which could escalate to YouTube and twitch for copyright as well.
Sad that it was a leaked song as well.

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Interesting find

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That is a lot of money. I guess Nicki got luck as it could have been a lot more.

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Wow. Interesting find :hushed:

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I understand that she had to pay… But it’s a great amount of money for a song that wasn’t even commercially released :open_mouth:

Wow this is interesting

So this will cost her a days work? Pretty easy to take without permission and pay the forgiveness than to ask and pay fair use.

Neither really has much out at them moment anyhow, and this may set back Minaj a bit…

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