{"id":1823,"date":"2024-07-18T01:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/kanye-west-faces-new-lawsuit-over-alleged-uncleared-sample-on-donda\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T01:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:35:53","slug":"kanye-west-faces-new-lawsuit-over-alleged-uncleared-sample-on-donda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/kanye-west-faces-new-lawsuit-over-alleged-uncleared-sample-on-donda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Faces New Lawsuit Over Alleged Uncleared Sample on ‘Donda’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tYe (formerly Kanye West) is facing another lawsuit accusing him of illegal sampling, this time over allegations that he incorporated an instrumental track into two songs from Donda<\/em> even after he was explicitly denied permission.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe case, filed Wednesday (July 17) in Los Angeles federal court, claims that Ye borrowed elements from a song called \u201cMSD PT2\u201d for his own \u201cHurricane\u201d and \u201cMoon\u201d \u2014 both of which reached the top 20 on the Hot 100 when they were released in 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tFiled by a company that owns the rights to the earlier song, the case claims that when Ye was refused a license to use it, he simply \u201cdecided to steal it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis lawsuit is about more than defendants\u2019 failure to pay a fee,\u201d writes Oren Warshavsky<\/strong> and other attorneys from the law firm BakerHostetler, representing the plaintiffs. \u201cIt is about the rights of artists, musicians, and songwriters to determine how their works are published and used. Intellectual property owners have a right to decide how their property is exploited and need to be able to prevent shameless infringers from simply stealing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an act of particularly \u201cblatant brazenness,\u201d the lawsuit claims that Ye even credited the song\u2019s four creators \u2014 Khalil Abdul-Rahman Hazzard, Sam Barsh, Dan Seeff and Josh Mease \u2014 as songwriters despite their refusal to work with him.<\/p>\n

\n\tWednesday\u2019s case was filed not by the artists themselves, but by a company called Artist Revenue Advocates (ARA), which owns the copyrights to \u201cMSD PT2.\u201d Lawyers for the company say the four artists turned to ARA after they \u201cunsuccessfully attempted to collect their share of the proceeds from these songs\u201d for nearly three years.<\/p>\n

\n\tA spokesperson for Ye could not immediately be located for comment on the new case.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new allegations come less than a month after Ye settled a separate lawsuit filed by the estate of Donna Summer over a very similar accusation. In that earlier case, Summer\u2019s estate claimed the rapper had used her 1977 hit \u201cI Feel Love\u201d in his own \u201cGood (Don\u2019t Die)\u201d despite a similarly explicit refusal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSummer\u2019s estate \u2026 wanted no association with West\u2019s controversial history and specifically rejected West\u2019s proposed use,\u201d the estate\u2019s attorneys wrote at the time. \u201cIn the face of this rejection, defendants arrogantly and unilaterally decided they would simply steal \u2018I Feel Love\u2019 and use it without permission.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEven before the two recent cases, Ye has been sued repeatedly for uncleared samples and interpolations in his music.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2022, Ye was hit with a lawsuit claiming his song \u201cLife of the Party\u201d illegally sampled a song by the pioneering rap group Boogie Down Productions; accused in another case over allegations that he used an uncleared snippet of Marshall Jefferson\u2019s 1986 house track \u201cMove Your Body\u201d in the song \u201cFlowers\u201d; and sued in a different case by a Texas pastor for allegedly sampling from his recorded sermon in \u201cCome to Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore that, West and Pusha T were sued in 2019 for sampling George Jackson\u2018s \u201cI Can\u2019t Do Without You\u201d on the track \u201cCome Back Baby.\u201d That same year, he was sued for allegedly using an audio snippet of a young girl praying in his 2016 song \u201cUltralight Beam.\u201d Further back, West was hit with similar cases over allegedly unlicensed samples used in \u201cNew Slaves,\u201d \u201cBound 2\u201d and \u201cMy Joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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