If you can recall in the Jay-Z documentary “Fade to Black”, there was dispute between Jay-Z’s engineer “Young Guru” and a female over certain samples on the song “Justify My Thug”, which was produced by Dj Quik. It was uncertain whether the song was going to be cleared in time to make the album. As most of us know, what happened next is that the sample was cleared in time and the song made the album. Well, it seems as if all the samples on the track weren’t completely cleared.
Recently, publishing company Bridgeport Music Inc. has filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan federal court over that exact song. The company is claiming that Jay-Z (Sean Carter) violated copyright laws on the song by not having a sample cleared. It was unclear at the time of this press release as to whom the disputed sample might belong to or what the disclosed amount of money the company is seeking for the alleged copyright violation. However, this is not the first time Bridgeport has filed a large profile case against a Hip Hop star.
In 2002, the company took N.W.A to court over there song “100 Miles and Runnin”, claiming that the group sampled a two-second guitar chord from Funkadelic’s “Get Off Your Ass and Jam”, lowered the pitch, then looped it five times in their track. The resulting verdict would make it a violation of copyright law if the artist uses any section of a work without permission from the creator, regardless of length of time. Also, in March, Bridgeport successfully stopped sales of the late Notorious B.I.G.’s album, Ready to Die, after it was ruled that a portion of the Ohio Players song “Bridgeport” was used without permission.
Audiotbit: Jay-Z-”Justify My Thug”
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