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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 Gaaark on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:37PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:37PM (#466194) Journal

    Don't care, unless it happens to get rid of stupid patenting/copyright and patent/copyright trolls and 60000000 year long patent/copyright life...you know... gets rid of stupidity!

    Wait. Get rid of stupidity? Where would all the sheeple go?

    Beyoncé?
    Nope don't care.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 12 2017, @08:47PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday February 12 2017, @08:47PM (#466291) Homepage

    Duuuuhhh WUT? [sourcefed.com]

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:44PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:44PM (#466355) Journal

      Wow: is that Mick Jagger or Tim Curry?, lol!

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