Thanks everybody for taking the time to explain a complicated subject. And thanks, hauksdottir, for the link; it gave me a headache, but it did answer a lot of questions. "smile" By the way music copyright law 101 was the course I took. But it was simply an elective for music students. There was a whole major field of study, so my course didn't even began to scratch the surface. I do remember that there was a court case concerning the sampling issue. I still don't understand the rationale behind the findings on that case. I remember thinking at the start of the case that it would be over in a couple of days with "sampling rights" losing hands down. As it was the case dragged on, I believe, for over a year, and the samplers won. I'm still curious about that. Might go over to the Copyright Forum and ask. But if these people talk like lawyers, I'm sure I won't stay there long! lol Thanks again.