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martyb
on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:07PM
from the diamonds^W-copyrights-are-forever dept.
from the diamonds^W-copyrights-are-forever dept.
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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Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song
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(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:35PM
The point of copyright - if it is to exist, which I'm not saying is the case nor that the current length is sane - is to stop others from using your creative works in ways you don't want.
The point of copyright (and patents) is "to promote useful progress in the sciences and arts". It of course fails at that in its current configuration (really, 12-15 years should be the general limit, ideally each creative genre should have its own reasonable limit, some less, some more), but it certainly is not nor has ever been meant "to stop others from using your creative works in ways you don't want".