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by hn_acker 927 days ago
> A sample is using a literal cut-and-paste of a section of another copyrighted work and re-selling it directly

"re-selling it directly" is not the usual case. The sample is just the extracted piece, while the practice called sampling is incorporating the piece into a new work [1]:

> In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.

For example, hip hop is a genre which grew around sampling [1].

Sampling isn't necessarily fair use, but can be [1]. Reselling an extracted piece of a song almost certainly isn't fair use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)

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Sorry, I meant using directly in a work that is then resold. Thank you for clarifying, though.