> However if that is the case then I find it weird that the sample wouldn't have been cleared by their big hip-hop labels and that the Winstons were aware of it's use but nobody cared enough to do anything about it until 10 or 20 years later when it was too late
The Winstons leader claims he only found out around 1996. The question is, why didn't he seek royalties from people who used it afterwards, like Oasis, Norman Cook, Dua Lipa, Naruto soundtrack, etc?
My guess is that the track is in a bit of copyright limbo, because it's basically a cover of two Impressions songs. Another one is that the recording company owns the masters. They seems to have been bought by MGM.
> However if that is the case then I find it weird that the sample wouldn't have been cleared by their big hip-hop labels and that the Winstons were aware of it's use but nobody cared enough to do anything about it until 10 or 20 years later when it was too late
The Winstons leader claims he only found out around 1996. The question is, why didn't he seek royalties from people who used it afterwards, like Oasis, Norman Cook, Dua Lipa, Naruto soundtrack, etc?
My guess is that the track is in a bit of copyright limbo, because it's basically a cover of two Impressions songs. Another one is that the recording company owns the masters. They seems to have been bought by MGM.