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Olivia Rodrigo

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1. “Yes, so she owns her publishing and she might share it with other songwriters who participated in songwriting sessions on individual songs and also may share a portion with a publisher, which is a company that basically says, hey, we're going to maybe give you advances and help you out in exchange for a portion of your publishing. But yes, generally, songwriters own their publishing, and artists are always wanting to own more and more of their masters, which is primarily owned by music labels.”

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2. “Exactly. But it's the same thing. It sounds more or less the same. And so that's an interpolation. And the interpolation is important because I think it gets to two other essential definitions, which are around publishing rights and master rights, which is that when you record a song, there's actually two different copyrights. There is the copyright for the recording itself. That's often called the master. And then you have the copyright for the song composition, often called the publishing. So in the case of MIA, they had to pay for the publishing rights because that's the composition of the clash song, but they didn't have to pay for the master recording because they didn't actually use the recording. And each one has a different license and a different payment scheme.”

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3. “It simply goes when you directly take a piece of the recorded material and you recontextualize it in a new song. It is the basis of which much of hip-hop is built off of and all contemporary music at this point. There's a subset of sampling, which is called interpolation, where you might not actually take the recording of the thing, but you might use pieces of it and re-record it yourself, a really great case of interpolation would be MIA's paper planes. Uses a sample from the clash. Not actually a sample, it's a re recorded interpolation.”

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