Hoping to clarify something here with regard to the UK.

Performance royalties administered by PRS are collected on behalf of the composer/writer of a work whenever that work is performed. No composer(pd), no royalties.

Public Performance Royalties administered by PPL are collected whenever a piece of recorded work gets played in public i.e; radio, TV, Club, Pub, Disco, Lift etc. Therefore if you record a pd piece and it gets played in any of the aforementioned places you collect royalties. Every different take or remix is copyrighted individually. The people who benefit from this are every person who performed on the recorded track or made a contribution which these days is ludicrous as it includes so called producers who butcher things with computer clicks etc or played two notes an a triangle in the final chords.

And isn't "sampling" stealing?

My apologies if I am wandering off thread.

Hoot