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Who favorited?Lil Wayne & Birdman Involved In Yet Another Legal Battle
by on November 2nd, 2009
Lil Wayne, Birdman, and Cash Money Records are involved in yet another legal battle over copyright claims.
Thomas Marasciullo is suing the rappers for copyright infringement, claiming he created some "Italian-styled spoken word recordings" for them in 2006, but did not give the pair permission to use them.
Marasciullo alleges the recordings were used on a number of songs on the rappers' joint album Like Father, Like Son as well as on some tracks on Birdman's CD 5 (Star) Stunna.
Marasciullo discovered his work had been used when his daughter discovered his "Respect" while trying buy a ring-tone version of the Aretha Franklin classic by the same name, the lawsuit said.
His son also became entangled in the case when he was fired from a recording engineer job at Cash Money Records after the father started demanding payment.
In recent years, Lil Wayne, Birdman, & Cash Money Records have been sued for copyright infringement over four times.
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your fuckbuddy been catchin cases lately!
These niggas just refuse to pay motherfuckers.smh
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On a real note as shady as tha business is dropping over a million tracks and having 4 maybe 5 lawsuits, yea I’d say thas an ahhmazing ratio. How yall figure they always jackin a couple sour deals from a few yrs back man please he makin more tracks now. Just keep it 100 ppl will ok one day and try to sue u tha next just tha biz, hate if you want if Cash Money had hundreds of pending cases I’d say aight they scheming ppl but 4 or 5, shoot even 10 they still in tha up and hella lucky as shady as tha tha industry is, jus my opinion
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at what point in a performance do you do that?
faggot ass niggas, spending 55k at every shop.
I guess if u pay the ppl you sample from or don’t sample at all you’d save time for problems…but then you’d hafta make beats from scratch.
these cats wanna have their cake n eat it too…not in this business