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]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2017, @01:27AM
No, it's not trolling. Neither you nor anybody else has any right to commercially benefit from other peoples work unless they say so.
In Europe we have moral rights associated with authorship. Why assume anybody would want to be associated with the deprived, masonic, globalist shit-show that Jay-Z and his ugly wife represent?