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![[*]](./images/xpsilver/default_icon.gif) posted on 21-3-2006 at 07:38 AM |
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$4.2 Million awarded to Bridgeport Music and Westbound Records in Biggie - Ready To Die sample clearance case.
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4823028.stm
Article:
'Judge blocks Notorious BIG album'
'A US judge has stopped sales of a 1994 album by Notorious BIG after a jury said it used part of a tune by funk band Ohio Players without permission.
The two music companies that own rights to Ohio Players recordings were awarded $4.2m (£2.3m) in damages. The jury said Bad Boy Entertainment
illegally used a part of the 1992 song Singing in the Morning. The ban affects the late rapper's album Ready to Die and the title song in any form,
including downloads and radio.'
'Verdict without merit'
'The defendants, Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy LLC, Justin Combs Publishing and Universal Records, plan to appeal. The album was executive produced
by Sean "Diddy Combs". "We think (the verdict) is without merit," said their lawyer Jay Bowen outside the Nashville court. Bridgeport Music and
Westbound Records, which owned the rights to Singing in the Morning, have filed hundreds of legal cases over "sampling" of their songs, although
most were settled out of court. Armen Boladian, owner of Westbound and Bridgeport, said: "We've just been battling this for such a long time. So
many have been settled because companies didn't want anything to do with it, and we knew we were right."
'Influential artist'
'The companies get most of their income from song royalties by their artists, which include funk legend George Clinton, the Funkadelics and the Ohio
Players. The estate of Notorious BIG was originally sued but was dropped later as a defendant. The New York rapper, born Christopher Wallace but also
known as Biggie Smalls, was 24 in 1997 when he was killed in an unsolved shooting in LA. A new team of police is now investigating the killing.
He was one of the most influential hip-hop artists of the 1990s. Ready To Die and the posthumously released album Life After Death together sold
nearly 8 million copies in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.'
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| posted on 21-3-2006 at 09:39 AM |
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Good story, cheers for posting it.
One less ivory backscratcher for Diddy.
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| posted on 21-3-2006 at 12:09 PM |
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yeah good story but i dont agree with baning some ones music because they used some sample in there song if every hip hop trak that had an illegal
sample in it was banned we'd have no more hip hop
ok thats maybee a bit over the top but you get my point i hope
oh and on the other hand i think people should sue sean combs more often
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| posted on 21-3-2006 at 12:17 PM |
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More people should bitch slap Combs...
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| posted on 21-3-2006 at 01:45 PM |
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that would be good also
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| posted on 21-3-2006 at 01:51 PM |
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if you dont have a copy, by now before its too late! $10 with a DVD in the discount CD shops!
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| posted on 22-3-2006 at 06:57 AM |
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You gotta wonder how much of that $4.2 million the Ohio Players will ever see. Not much at all I'm guessing.
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