*A judge on Wednesday dismissed a copyright infringement case against Jay Z over his 1999 hit “Big Pimpin'” before the case was sent to a jury. U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder ruled that the ...
*The copyright infringement trial involving Jay Z‘s hit song “Big Pimpin’” began Tuesday with an attorney for heirs of an Egyptian composer accusing the rapper of misusing music from a popular 1950s ...
The hip-hop mogul has been locked in a California court battle with Osama Ahmed Fahmy since 2007, after he alleged Jay Z's hit song violated his rights to his uncle Baligh Hamdy's composition, Khosara ...
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(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday awarded a victory to Jay-Z in a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming that the rapper sampled without permission from an Egyptian composer's song for ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Attorneys for Jay Z said in court on Tuesday that the rapper had properly acquired the rights to an Egyptian musician's melody to use for his hit 1999 song "Big Pimpin'," as a ...
A California federal court judge ruled this week that a lawsuit filed against Jay-Z by the children of Egyptian composer Baligh Homody, who claim the rapper's use of Homody's "Khosara, Kohsara" ...
Speaking about the experience (at 5:15 in the below video), Ford explained that she used to turn down a bunch of music video shoots but accepted the call to do the video because she was on spring ...