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The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. Most often on Last.fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information.
Compilation albums, for example.
Sometimes, single releases may be credited to Various Artists when their profits are going to charity and, usually in high-profile cases, are sometimes known by a group name. Examples include Band Aid with their releases of Do They Know It's Christmas? and USA for Africa with We Are The World.
Various Artists is also an actual performance name for Torsten Pröfrock, who runs the German DIN label. Torsten performs also as Dynamo, Erosion, Resilent, Traktor besides some others. He's a good friend of Robert Henke and since the Fall of 2004, he is a member of Monolake.
Various Artists was also a short-lived Bristol punk band formed by brothers Jonjo and Robin Key (originally from Birmingham). Other members were also simultaneously in Art Objects who went on to become The Blue Aeroplanes, the latter the Key brothers also co-wrote some songs and were involved in. When Various Artists imploded, the Key brothers went on to form Either / Or.
Various Artists also appear on tracks from musical theater soundtracks, due to the nature of having many cast members on one song, as well as an ensemble in some cases.
The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. Most often on Last.fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information.
Compilation albums, for example.
Sometimes, single releases may be credited to Various Artists when their profits are going to charity and, usually in high-profile cases, are sometimes known by a group name. Examples include Band Aid with their releases of Do They Know It's Christmas? and USA for Africa with We Are The World.
Various Artists is also an actual performance name for Torsten Pröfrock, who runs the German DIN label. Torsten performs also as Dynamo, Erosion, Resilent, Traktor besides some others. He's a good friend of Robert Henke and since the Fall of 2004, he is a member of Monolake.
Various Artists was also a short-lived Bristol punk band formed by brothers Jonjo and Robin Key (originally from Birmingham). Other members were also simultaneously in Art Objects who went on to become The Blue Aeroplanes, the latter the Key brothers also co-wrote some songs and were involved in. When Various Artists imploded, the Key brothers went on to form Either / Or.
Various Artists also appear on tracks from musical theater soundtracks, due to the nature of having many cast members on one song, as well as an ensemble in some cases.
So Clear
Various Artists Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'So Clear' by these artists:
Big Wreck It′s so clear Look at it from the outside in It's all…
Bul How could you be so clear, we could’ve gone just…
HYD Clear Clear You came running I hadn't slept Break the silen…
Hyd & umru (Umru said I'm cute) (Clear) You came running I hadn't slep…
John Metcalfe You sing, I hear He says, my dear, We have so much My…
Junip Wherever you look, It's always the same, So many people, And…
Machiavel Tell my why, tell me why, why I feel so…
Pentangle It was in the rainy season, waiting for the train, Leaving…
Slaves on Dope I looked at what I thought you were Faking And then I…
Spiritchaser As the night drifted by The stars in the sky Slowly..., they…
The Pentangle It was in the rainy season, waiting for the train, Leaving…
Voicians Why -- is everything so clear Why -- is everything so…
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Matthew Fodell
Ummm it’s not reassuring that you’re basically like “Yeah I’m not liable for what happens if you get sent to copyright infringement jail (i.e. if you get sued into oblivion for hundreds of thousands of dollars you don’t have or w/e), but it’ll probably be fine. 🤷”
I’ll have to talk to some other musicians, people in the industry who have dealt with this more than I have, because if it really is that simple— if that’s the standard, accepted practice, & it’s just a matter of paying a reasonable royalty if/when a song blows up & they come asking for it— then that would be great, because I’d love to just be able to sample songs without worry… But I can recall a lot of cases earlier in the history of sample-based music (for instance stuff discussed in a really good documentary about the history of sampling I saw years ago) where they essentially concluded that it was next to impossible to sample artists like the Beatles or Michael Jackson because of how prohibitively expensive (or unwilling to clear samples) the holders of the copyrights/masters are, & that basically albums like Dangermouse’s Grey Album (mixing the Beatles’ White Album & Jay-Z’s Black Album) or Girl Talk’s insane mosaics of popular & classic songs would be impossible to make under the current IP regime…
I mean, it’s easy to say as a hypothetical, but I’m seeing immediate issues with the logic of “ask for forgiveness rather than permission.” Like, if you’ve already released your song & it blew up super big, everyone has already heard it, you’ve already done the sampling & distribution, then what happens if the copyright holders say “No, we don’t give you permission. You can’t use the sample even for royalties, so you’re in violation of sampling without a license”? Could they potentially sue you for more for that violation than they could’ve gotten for royalties?.. Could they take everything you earned from the song? If not, what happens then?
And even in a scenario where let’s say they don’t come down on you that hard, with the full force of IP lawyers & a punitive approach… If you already did it & it’s already been widely heard then you ultimately will have no choice but to accept whatever terms the copyright holders demand, because the alternative is that you refuse to pay for the licensing/royalties they demand, which means suddenly the song that made you that revenue is no longer yours, & then they could come after you in court (& if you’re an indie artist who is worried about this in the first place then you probably don’t have thousands for court/lawyer fees)… So if you don’t clear it in advance— if you “ask for forgiveness” like you’re encouraging— then doesn’t that leave you with zero leverage to negotiate from?.. At that point you NEED to get that sample cleared, regardless what they charge, so they have all the leverage & can basically just charge you whatever they want, & if it’s too much tor you to pay then that’s your problem. It seems like this approach just amounts to praying tor the good will & beneficence of corporations, but corporations have no good will or beneficence— they just have an institutional imperative to profit as much as they can. If they can profit more from screwing you over & taking everything in court than they can from accepting a smaller royalty/licensing fee then why would they ever do the latter? Maybe you can get away with it some of the time, especially if you’re dealing with an independent artist or a very small label who are just happy to see any royalties/popularization of their music (after all, the industry may act like clearing samples for other artists to use is a one-sidedly generous act the copyright holders do FOR us, but in reality sampling a song also is basically providing free advertising for the original & can even resurrect a long-forgotten song & make the copyright holder a lot of money just by boosting their own sales & streaming plays, irrespective of licensing fees or royalties paid by the sampler)… At any rate, if it’s already done & they demand an unreasonable fee then you just basically have to take a shitty deal or if you refuse probably get sued for everything you made from it…
If you ask for permission BEFORE publishing a song that uses samples, on the other hand, then (a) it isn’t yet known exactly how much you’ll make off of it (so you might not get charged on the basis that it’s a smash hit with millions for the copyright holder to take the largest cut they can out of), but more importantly (b) you are in a position to negotiate, because you have leverage: if what they ask for is unreasonable & they’re unwilling to negotiate & meet you halfway, then you have the option of just *walking away*, NOT taking the deal & NOT publishing/making a song using those samples. Which means they have some incentive to work with you, because presumably they want to make royalties/licensing fees, & SOME would be preferable over NONE.
That seems to me to be a huge, almost night-&-day difference in the dynamic of the negotiation. When asking for permission ahead of time the copyright holder’s options are “take what they can get in a somewhat fair business negotiation where both parties have something the other wants” vs “lose out on it all because you walk away & sample someone else instead…” Whereas if you ask for forgiveness after the song already blew up & is out there (can’t put the genie back in the bottle), with a known quantity of revenue having been earned off it, their options are “give you the chance to pay whatever they DEMAND from you as royalties/fees, while you just HAVE to accept because if you don’t get the license then you open yourself up to lawsuit & essentially stand to forfeit everything earned via your song,” or if they’re really nasty they could just “sue & take it all because you already risked that by publishing without clearing the sample.”
Unless there’s something really big & game-changing I’m missing, it seems extremely sus & irresponsible to encourage artists (& particularly the younger, less experienced, more vulnerable indie artists who this video is directed towards, who probably can’t afford a legal team & would be devastated by a lawsuit or a really predatory, exploitative deal on clearing a sample) to engage in this practice which could so easily blow up in their face & ruin their lives/careers… It actually seems so odd & potentially hazardous to the artists being addressed that it makes me wonder if this guy or his company (he is literally himself a CEO) are invested in owning copyrights for various classic songs, & he’s intentionally steering people into a position where they’ll use his samples without asking prior, & then he can demand more or less whatever ridiculous rate he wants & if they refuse it will be them who get sued & lose out because in our capitalist economy, a CEO/corporation who owns the rights will always win out over some kid who just wanted to use a sample & got clapped for it. Not saying that is the case with this particular guy… I don’t know. Just saying that that is one explanation that would make sense of why he’d be giving advice that could end so badly for everyone involved EXCEPT the copyright holding record labels/investors who will get a lot more out of it if artists put themselves in such a vulnerable position.
Noiburg
If I have a label coming after me for a beat that I made then I’ll know I’m starting to get somewhere with my art. That’s my whole mindset with sampling
JQ Mirage
Same. Most of us are not close to popular in terms of music popularity, so if I ever put out something with an uncleared sample, and then the label gets mad at me, I’ll be annoyed, but also happy
Cobbo
just put out a beat with an uncleared sample and i think the same way lol@JQ Mirage
wakeup.1990
1. If you made a beat with the uncleared sample, say u put it on youtube. Someone may still it. And u can't do nothing about it, cuz you yourself did it "illigaly" 2. You're not gonna be able to upload it on streaming services and beat markets, like Beatstars. Am I wrong somewhere?
Square Business Entertainment
I found this very helpful. Regardless of The fact people have been doing this for years, there are new artists and indie labels that don’t know simple pearls like this. Not giving legal advice but educating people on what you have seen others do, is the proper way to side-step legal liability. Very smooth & nicely done. Thank you for the insight!
moisturizedkev
This was very helpful! I think I'm just gonna ask for forgiveness later if I get caught 😩🥺
Arnez Bias
me too lol
BreakTide
Yessir
Nebulh
Same lol
Shobe
Same here, I haven’t took any money at all from my label and don’t plan on doing it as because I’m doing this outta my enjoyment and not really for any needed financial support, so if the sample labels contact me about it and require money I’ll just hand it over to them lmao