A "General / Cafe Society" Question Re: Royalties & Sampling

Cafe Society
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After searching the boards w/keywords sampling & royalties and not finding a specific answer, was wondering anyone knows the specifics on what royalties have to be paid to the original artist

For example, from the rap world:

Takeover by Jay Z sampling The Doors “Five To One”

The list could fill 1000 threads

Though it’s not as rampant as it is in hip-hop, it appears to be a popular revenue enhancer in the Pop Contemporary market

How much $ did Janet Jackson have to pay America for lifing Ventura Highway and neatly dropping it on to Someone To Call My Lover

So here we are at the office arguing about it…

  1. Royalties are paid, correct? If memory serves me, Vanilla Ice had to give Queen quite a few pounds for his lift in Ice Ice Baby (yuch)

  2. Is it a set % or are these older artists / publishers who are getting “covered” have to negotiate a fee?

  3. Where aren’t the original songwriter credits listed parenthetically next to the track titles?

I look at it this way, if Jagger / Richards got to keep all the $ for Bittersweet Symphony because the Verve didn’t credit them for sounding too much like the Last Time, surely you just can’t throw a few peanuts at an orignal artist for all the samples weaved throughout an album.

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There’s a good discussion about sampling here in part 3 he talks about rates.

I recall years ago reading that Mick Jagger’s manager had dismissed, out of hand, a request by Vanilla Ice to sample one of Jagger’s tracks. Although not released as a single the decision reportedly cost Jagger over $100,000 on the royalties Vanilla Ice would have paid for an album track.