Quote Originally Posted by module

Crime, did you clear the Streethawk samples ?
You tend to find that the people that own the copyright to these things arn't really bothered unless you're selling at least 5000 if not 10000 copies, I know of people who have got away with much worse...

This is the way that it works, it was never the case that we made loads of money BECAUSE the producer used samples from an old TV show, in fact it was the worst selling release on the label and we never re-couped the production costs, so obviously even if whoever owned the rights to the Streethawk had heard it, they wouldn't bother to sue as there would be no money there to take anyhow...

I'm in agreement that sample clearance is a different issue, even when a techno artist has ripped something totally, it's very very rare that they would make a pile of cash out of it...

@ Shiva: That's a cool tale, sometimes signs are sent in the strangest ways, I had one last friday when my homie Bill Youngman totally rocked the Raumklang here in Berlin at his Tresor record release party, you guys here should really pay attention to what he's doing, rocked my world & I was totally straight :)