If you edit a copyrighted song, do you own the copyright?

Not on your life.

All you did WAS edit it. It is not yours.

Absolutely not. Did you compose the music and lyrics? Did you perform it? Did you buy the copyright from the original copyright holder?

If your answer to all of those questions is “no”, then you have no right whatsoever to that song.

Yes, if your name is Ville Virtanen (Darude). If that’s not your name then of course not.

Nope. If that were the case, people wouldn’t get sued for copyright infringement for sampling.

You didn’t even have the right to edit it, let alone to release your edited version. You will be sued like there’s no tomorrow.

No! You violated their copyright.

You can request permission to use the sample from Darude, or whoever owns the copyright.

Note that you’ll probably have to pay.

If material is not in the public domain, you must license it from the copyright holder. If you licensed the original song from Darude, then the edited version would be yours.

The only time someone else’s work becomes yours after editing is if it is in the public domain, which I’m guessing “Sandstorm” is not.