Informal synthesis of 3 texts on plagiarism and music sampling

While I stated my opinion vicariously through the summary of the first two articles (which probably wasn't a very good thing to do in a summary...), I receieved a good amount of insight from the third article I chose, "Digital Sampling of Music and Copyright: is it infringement, fair use, or should we just flip a coin?" by Christopher C. Collie and Eric D. Gorman. They interested me by including a legal proposal toward the end of the paper that represented their method at the best way to solve the music sampling dispute--to cut a deal. They proposed that we should consider including a formula in law that, if an artist felt another artist's sampling of his work could be considered copyright infringment, could make amends for any harm done without causing the first artist to forfeit his work. For example, if a song was a minute long, and thirty seconds of it contained a drum track from a sampled piece, take 1/2 (30/60), and multiply it by one third, meaning that the sampled artist would take away a sixth of the money earned from that particular piece of music. I feel that, from what I've read, this sort of "deal" is probably the best solution to the sampling issue. Whether or not this generation has a problem keeping the definition of "plagiarism" in check, music sampling is a powerful and innovative method of expression, and shouldn't be stifled because of related issues, but rather encouraged in a way where nobody loses.