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Takes like FOREVER to get anything done
16 years ago
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Maaaan I really want to add more stuff to my FA, but it takes like FOREVER to get anything done. Everything gets to the brink of being done but then is on pause for months and months because of some tiny last detail that I need to make it perfect....
Oh well, such is the story of everything, right? If you want to do something worthwhile its never easy, because if it were easy, everybody would do it and it wouldn't be worthwhile anymore, right?
So I am sitting on a bunch of tracks now, almost-complete, waiting for licensing to go through. The sampling laws right now are ridiculous. It's crazy how independent musicians (like myself) can't sell tracks with samples in them without acquiring expensive licenses from big faceless corporations who otherwise wouldn't even know that we exist, then they charge exorbitant prices that a "little guy" is unlikely to ever make up in sales....
But then again, an underground musician shouldn't expect to make much, I don't suppose. It's more of a hobby than a career. Maybe I should just think of licenses as a motorcycle enthusiast thinks of new chrome doohickies, or a golf enthusiast thinks of a new club?
For music, one can make the argument that the original artist that was sampled helped sell the song, and is therefore entitled to a portion of the proceeds. But sound-effects and dialog are completely different IMHO. It takes a certain amount of creativity and talent for a sampler to find something that would work in a song, and a new original track is so far divorced from movies and TV that I just don't see them having any legitimate claim over the song that's ultimately produced... but that's just me...
I just want their permission to use some samples to make the songs a little more diverse.