# How do sublicensing rights generally work for things like music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 3, 2015, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-sublicensing-rights-generally-work-for-things-like-music/711688 "2015-02-03T10:01:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-sublicensing-rights-generally-work-for-things-like-music/711688/1 "2015-02-03T10:01:17Z")
If Artist A\* gets the rights to sample Artist B’s song, do they generally have sublicensing rights to that sample? That is, can Artist A license their song with the sample out to, say, a movie without that moviemaker also needing to seek permission from Artist B? A stronger example. Let’s say I’m an eccentric billionaire obsessed with copyleft licenses financing a film. I license “Wiggle” by Jason Derulo because I hate my fans and want them to suffer, but I license my film under CC-SA-NC. CC-SA-NC says that people who buy my work can edit, remix, and share it however they want as long as it’s not for sale, and also licensed under CC-SA-NC. However, it seems like this would not only infect **their** work, but also Mr. Derulo’s work. Since it’s a part of my movie, people could remix and share any scene with Wiggle, or even remix Wiggle because they can remix “any part of my movie”. Is that indeed a problem with Creative commons-like licenses? To license under CC-SA-NC would I need to get explicit permission from the Derulo’s producer? Or would any section of my film containing more restrictively licensed work have an implicit exemption from the CC-SA-NC terms? This is apropos of nothing, and out of pure curiosity. - Let’s be honest, probably producer A, but we can pretend.