Cyrus Langhorne
Music mogul Jay Z can worry a little less after his lawyer had vulgar lyrics removed from his publicized “Big Pimpin” copyright trial.
According to reports, Hov’s attorney Andrew Bart had his request for his “Big Pimpin'” lyrics’ removal approved yesterday (October 13).
U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder agreed, and ruled the song words would be irrelevant in the case. However, Osama Ahmed Fahmy’s attorney Peter Ross told the court the lyrics were the very reason why Carter avoided asking for permission before using Khosara Khosara. Jay Z sat alongside his lawyers but did not speak during proceedings. He is due to testify on Wednesday (14Oct15). (Contact Music)
Young Hov’s court battle with the heir of an Egyptian composer’s 1957 flute sample started up this week in Los Angeles.
Osama Ahmed Fahmy alleges that the rapper — whose real name Shawn Carter — had no legal right to sample the flute passage, which he claims was lifted from a song composed by his late uncle, Baligh Hamdy, according to the suit. Jay-Z’s 2000 hit opens with the flute sample, which is used as a musical hook throughout the song. (My News LA)
August reports projected an October courtroom battle would go down this fall.
The lawsuit dates from producer Timbaland’s use of a snippet from late Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi’s “Khosara, Khosara,” which he paid $100,000 to license from EMI Arabia. But in a twist that has made this one of the longest currently active lawsuits in the United States, it turns out EMI Arabia itself was licensing the composition from the Egyptian record label Sout el Phan. (Vulture)
Buzz about the lawsuit’s seriousness erupted back in March.
Fahmy’s lawsuit centers on the composition “Khosara, Khosara” from the 1960 Egyptian film Fata ahlami, which Jay Z and Timbaland (who is a co-defendant) turned into the unmistakable hook of the rapper’s 2000 single. Fahmy claims he’s an heir of “Khosara Khosara” composer Baligh Hamdy and sued the rapper for copyright infringement, also naming Paramount Pictures, Warner Music, UMG and MTV among the defendants. (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Jay always wins for stealing from someone.
How did he steal anything??? One he didn’t make the beat and two it’s says EMI Arabia was paid a $100,000 for the sample…. If anything EMI is the one that did some fraudulent nonsense
Fuck these scumbag greedy pricks who want to squeeze every dollar from a sample. Your song didn’t do shit before it was sampled and now you want to get paid. Samples should be cheap to clear.
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