In pop music we see sampling has increasingly become a major part of the art
As I understand it the reasons for the rise of sampling is exactly the opposite of what you argue here. Artists explicitly sample (with the legal paperwork) because it provides protection from claims that they copied portions of the song from elsewhere. Claims that you are much more likely to face if you instead try to create something on your own (and implicitly influenced by what you've heard and liked).
The easiest way to sidestep all of that is to explicitly focus on remixes, that and record every conversation and creative moment so that you can show it during discovery.
See for example the lawsuit over Ed Sheeran's Shape of You [0].
Sampling is widely accepeted to have originated from the 1970-80s Hiphop scene, where traditional DJs (playing other people's music, like the do today) started to get clever with how they were combining different tracks. Rappers would then start reciting lyrics over these remixed version of well known funk and soul tracks. Although the wikipedia does a good job tracing it back even further to the 1940s[0]
Copyright issues only came up later once Hiphop had begun to see more mainstream acceptance (i.e. make more money) and influence other musicians.
They're may be cases where sampling is used to avoid other legal issues, but it's origins are most definitely in reusing existing music to create something new.
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As I understand it the reasons for the rise of sampling is exactly the opposite of what you argue here. Artists explicitly sample (with the legal paperwork) because it provides protection from claims that they copied portions of the song from elsewhere. Claims that you are much more likely to face if you instead try to create something on your own (and implicitly influenced by what you've heard and liked).
The easiest way to sidestep all of that is to explicitly focus on remixes, that and record every conversation and creative moment so that you can show it during discovery.
See for example the lawsuit over Ed Sheeran's Shape of You [0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_You#Copyright_trial
Sampling is widely accepeted to have originated from the 1970-80s Hiphop scene, where traditional DJs (playing other people's music, like the do today) started to get clever with how they were combining different tracks. Rappers would then start reciting lyrics over these remixed version of well known funk and soul tracks. Although the wikipedia does a good job tracing it back even further to the 1940s[0]
Copyright issues only came up later once Hiphop had begun to see more mainstream acceptance (i.e. make more money) and influence other musicians.
They're may be cases where sampling is used to avoid other legal issues, but it's origins are most definitely in reusing existing music to create something new.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)
I was not commenting on the origins of sampling, but rather on why it is becoming "a major part of" of pop music today.