A really interesting thing about Paul’s Boutique is that the majority of the samples were cleared with minimal fuss. There were some samples that they used (like those of the Beatles) that were done without clearing them but apparently they were all like “fuck it, it would be awesome to get sued by the Beatles”.
This was only possible because this was done before the landmark sampling lawsuits of the early 1990s made it financially infeasible to ever make an album like that again.
