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Vereddit-quo t1_j5qitd2 wrote

Not totally true... Daft Punk have been paying royalties to the company which owns Eddie Johns' catalogue. What happens after is this company's responsibility, not Daft Punk's.

> despite Daft Punk officially licensing the track and paying royalties since its release in 2000, Johns has seen none of that money. "Daft Life LTD. is paying royalties twice a year to the producer and owner of 'More Spell on You'," a representative for Daft Punk told the Los Angeles Times. "We have not heard from [Johns] since the day we acquired in 1995 a catalog from another label that featured this title," GM Musipro founder George Mary said in an email. "We have tried to do research on him, but without any result. For our part, we are going to study his file and do the accounts to his credit.

Source https://djmag.com/news/artist-behind-daft-punk-one-more-time-lead-sample-has-never-been-paid

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