Slightly Off-topic: As someone who really doesn't know much about this stuff legally but likes heavily sample based music: Empirically I don't think having short samples having strict copyright restrictions doesn't feel "right". Anything under, say, 5 seconds and where the whole song isn't sampled from one artist exclusively should be fair game.

Does anyone else have thoughts on this or could explain to me reasons why it should stay the way it currently is?

It's always been the unofficially accepted way things are done in the music business. Short samples are tolerated, but some people are sensitive and try to sue and then I believe it can go either way depending on the details. If you lose, you'll have to license it.

Caveat Emptor: I am a software engineer who loves music and about 20 years ago I read a book about how the music biz works. (spoiler: it was mostly quite ugly behind the scenes!)

Right, thanks for the info!

I think tracklib is attempting to find a middle ground. Not sure the younger generation cares about Bob James in a backwards hat though.

If you want to discover eerie and interesting movies, check out the list of Skinny Puppy samples. Most of these don't appear to be on WhoSampled yet

https://skinnypuppy.eu/sample_film.htm

I find this site has long been packed full of incorrect information, linking samples to songs that do not contain said samples.

Great idea though, but needs years of fixing.

As MTV had it some 20 years ago in regard to covers: "Once is not enough, recycle". Will get worse now that a lot of artists sell their rights to companies.

Tracker music in a nutshell.