Royalty Free Sample Packs

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Who holds the copyright for a song that you create using Royalty Free Samples (Your lyrics and recording over Beat created with Royalty Free samples)?

For example, If I choose to create and release a song that contains Ghosthack samples, do I hold the copyrights to my recording?

When I purchase a beat from Pond5 or from SFRbeats, for example,
the copyright for the beat itself belongs to Pond5 or SFRbeats,
however, when I record something over these non-exclusive beats and release the recording,
then I am the copyright holder of these recordings.

Is this also the case with recordings that contain Ghosthack samples, or PrimeLoop samples or equivalent, or can I scratch utilizing Ghosthack, PrimeLoops, SoundRaw, LoopMasters samples altogether?

I am inquiring before I invest any time or money into an avenue that may lead to nowhere :slight_smile:

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It’s written in Ghostshack, Zero-G and similar providers’ licence files. All rights are yours. You only can not sell nor share separate files from libraries. That’s what they say there.

Personally I think that bit of own authorship is in that cases gone. Making tracks of loops is sort of managerial work, instead of creative work.

Why not make your own clips and build modular track of it? You can only exchange mixdowns and MIDI notations of chords and notes between modules. To make it sound. Then build main project of clips.

It has always been like that, since mod2samp was invented on Amiga.