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Weezy Samples Your Song: Sue Or Celebrate? [Adventures In Copyright Control]
Posted on September 05, 2008
In this week's LA Weekly, former Idolator guest Jeff Weiss looks at the lawsuit surrounding an unauthorized sample on one of Lil Wayne's most popular mixtape tracks, I Feel Like Dying. Can an artist sue over something that was never really sold? I Feel Like Dying was one of the tracks from Lil Wayne's seemingly endless output that was notable enough to appear on a number of year-end best-song lists, including the one compiled by Maura and Jess last December. However, the Jim Jonsin-produced track sampled Once by Karma-Ann Swanapoel without clearing it. If the track had been released in ...
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