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White and/or rich people think everything created by them belongs solely to them, that's the difference.
I can think of better songs the Verve have done than "Bittersweet Symphony", but it tears my heart out every time I hear it, knowing that they aren't getting jack shit for it and Rolling Stones are getting richer than they deserve to be from a song that's only loosely connected to them.
Also, Manfred Mann's stingyness with a instrumental almost no one's heard cost Massive Attack their right to play one of their best songs ("Black Milk") live, and replace it with an alternate version ("Black Melt") which I don't think is as good.
Personally, if someone sampled my song without my permission and used it in a good song, I wouldn't care. However, if it sucked...
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