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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2017, @12:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2017, @12:20AM (#466373)

    busily monetizing Tolkein's work after all these years.

    I see that differently. The material Tolkien left behind were not finished works. Christopher Tolkien put in considerable effort to piece them together, flesh them out, and make them coherent works. I think the work he did added considerably to the material and world of Middle Earth. He's in the coasting mode now as I suspect all the old material has been worked through by now. I was disappointed when I saw The Children of Hurin a few years ago. I took it to be "new" material, but it was basically just pulled out of earlier work.

    I see see your point being more like the Jimi Hendrix estate. After Hendrix died, they started just throwing out anything they had into albums. If you look into the discology, you'll see WAY more albums that came out after his death than during his life. A fair number of those don't sound all that great, like they were recorded with someone's cassette deck (which they probably were).