"You sample a song, you get it cleared. The music industry has always been a wild west of rip-off artists, snake oil salesmen and manipulative profiteers but the plagiarism lawyers have beaten some sort of gentlemanly practices into it over the decades. Talent borrows, genius steals, previous genius sends legal letter outlining their cut. There’s […]

The Verve's Richard Ashcroft has got the rights to song 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' after a legal battle od 22 years. The Rolling Stones' duo Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have now relinquished all publishing rights to Ashcroft. He acknowledged that it was the Stones' late manager, Allen Klein, who had been responsible for the situation, […]