Borrow or Steal? The Ethics of Sampling in Music Production

Imagine you spend three years writing a song. One morning you hear your melody playing on the radio — but someone else is singing it, and they never asked you. How would you feel? Now flip it: what if a producer took just two seconds of your song and turned it into a global hit? Does the length of the clip change how fair it is? Hold those thoughts — they sit at the heart of today's lesson.