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Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song

posted by martyb on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the diamonds^W-copyrights-are-forever dept.

takyon writes:

Beyoncé is being sued by the estate of a deceased New Orleans YouTube star:

Beyoncé's apparent appropriation of New Orleans culture stirred controversy with the release of her 2016 single "Formation" — with its groundbreaking video and the song itself nominated for an array of Grammy Awards this year.

But the family of a murdered New Orleans rapper whose voice is sampled on the bouncy track has spurred a new $26 million lawsuit claiming the celebrated pop singer, who recently revealed she's pregnant with twins, stole the copyrighted material.

Messy Mya was shot and killed in 2010.

[As an adjunct to this discussion, I cannot too highly recommend Spider Robinson's 1983 Hugo Award winning short story: Melancholy Elephants . -Ed]

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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:26PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:26PM (#466187) Journal

    I cannot too highly recommend Spider Robinson's 1983 Hugo Award winning short story: Melancholy Elephant . -Ed

    According to the link in tfs, the story is called Melancholy Elephants...

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:45PM (#466250)

    Also, the sentence reads rather awkward. I assume the ed meant "I cannot recommend xxx highly enough."

    • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:19PM

      by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:19PM (#466341) Journal

      The sentence reads to me like someone with English as a second language. The verb structure is reversed like you would get in Spanish or Italian. But I do understand what they meant and can second the recommendation for both the author and this particular story.

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