A dispute over who owns the rights to 1967 R&B song that was heavily sampled in Bakar's social media sleeper hit has spilled into federal court.
A German singer says she's descended from Holocaust survivors and refused to license her song because of Ye's antisemitic rants, but that he just used it anyway.
Haliey Welch partners with BeatStars on a vocal pack for producers.
The case was one of many, many sampling lawsuits the rapper formerly known as Kanye West has faced over the course of his prolific career.
The case claimed that one of the track's high-profile samples featured infringing lyrics, but those allegations likely faced long odds in court.
The star rapper is accused of using a famous sample without a license, but his lawyers say he only used a common phrase that's too basic to be locked up by one person.
A little-known New Orleans group claims one of the track's high-profile samples featured infringing lyrics. But a case over a three-word phrase could face long odds in court.
An oft-sampled 1973 song at the heart of hip hop history – and music law history – is now the basis of a new copyright case against UMG over Blige’s 1992 “Real Love.”
Taiwanese-Brooklyn transplant Calvin “Kai-Wei” Chang’s debut album Reprocessor is musical, dense and seemingly done-based, causing it to straddle a number of genres from experimental to darkwave to IDM, but that’s not what sets it apart. It’s the fact that it’s made entirely from foun
