If Sting Charges An Arm And A Leg For Publishing (Puffy & Juice World) Then How Did These Two Get Over?…

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If I’m not mistaken he has a controlling stake in The Police’s recordings too

Was he in a good mood that day?
 

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From what I understand puff put it out without getting it cleared first because he wanted to get it out quickly following Big's passing and didn't want to wait. Cam and Nas got it approved before.

Sting apparently doesn't have a problem with people sampling his music as long as they get his approval
 

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They probably had to give up 100 percent of their publishing too

If you put the song out before clearing the sample and the song is a hit then of course he's going to take all the publishing. You have no leverage in that case.

The short version of why this came about is that Puff Daddy forgot to ask Sting for permission to use “Every Breath You Take” before the fact. If he had done so, he would have ended up paying Sting a mere 25% of the royalties. But Puff Daddy didn’t ask, which allowed Sting to take legal action, and that resulted in Sting receiving 100% of the royalties generated by “I’ll Be Missing You.” The other part of this is that Sting is listed as the sole songwriter on “Every Breath You Take”—not The Police, not Sting/Summers, just Sting alone. So he receives 100% of the songwriting royalties generated by “Every Breath You Take,” which in this case happens to include all the royalties to “I’ll Be Missing You” as well.
 

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This is so stupid I’d need Puff himself to explain the logic. There’s no statute of limitations to sue
its not that stupid though. It only even looks bad decades later. The money wasn’t made from owning the song, the money was made from touring and that song helping turn Puffy into an even bigger superstar. It helped him tour internationally. He was more concerned with getting the record out there quickly than anything else.

Some artists (the smartest ones) see music for what it’s really is - promotion and a stepping stone to something much more lucrative.
 
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its not that stupid though. It only even looks bad decades later. The money wasn’t made from owning the song, the money was made from touring and that song helping turn Puffy into an even bigger superstar. It helped him tour internationally. He was more concerned with getting the record out there quickly than anything else.

Some artists (the smartest ones) see music for what it’s really is - promotion and a stepping stone to something much more lucrative.

You don’t get what I’m saying. It was stupid to try and pull a fast one and take a major song from one of the biggest artists of the previous decade like nobody would notice since you didn’t want to pay
 

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Sting didn’t charge an arm and a leg for sample clearance. Puff and Juiceworld did dirty business and it backfired on them. All they had to do was give that man his money.

Sting did exactly what he was entitled to do.
 
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