{"id":134032,"date":"2024-05-31T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134032"},"modified":"2024-05-31T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:29:14","slug":"beyonce-jay-z-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-break-my-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134032","title":{"rendered":"BEYONC\u00c9 &#038; JAY-Z SUED FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT OVER &#8216;BREAK MY SOUL&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"gmail-article-header\" class=\"gmail-article-header\">\n<div class=\"gmail-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-publish-info\">\n<div class=\"gmail-publish-text\">\n<div class=\"gmail-author\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-sharing gmail-image-rectangle\">\n<div class=\"gmail-icon gmail-twitter\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-134033\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/beyonce-jay-z-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-break-my-soul-1200x675-1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/beyonce-jay-z-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-break-my-soul-1200x675-1-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/beyonce-jay-z-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-break-my-soul-1200x675-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/beyonce-jay-z-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-break-my-soul-1200x675-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/beyonce-jay-z-sued-for-copyright-infringement-over-break-my-soul-1200x675-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"gmail-article-header\" class=\"gmail-article-header\">\n<div class=\"gmail-news-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span class=\"\">KEVIN MAZUR\/GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-article-advertisement gmail-article-news gmail-article-body\">\n<div class=\"gmail-body-copy gmail-js-entry-text\">\n<p class=\"\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/jay-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JAY-Z<\/a>\u00a0have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over Bey\u2019s popular\u00a0<a class=\"gmail-underline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/reviews\/id.3898\/title.beyonce-renaissance-album-review\"><em class=\"\">Renaissance<\/em><\/a>\u00a0cut, \u201cBreak My Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Per legal documents obtained by\u00a0<em class=\"\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/balleralert.com\/profiles\/blogs\/beyonce-jayz-sued-break-my-soul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baller Alert<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on Wednesday (May 22), a group called Da Showstoppaz are alleging that the pair unlawfully used their 2002 song \u201cRelease A Wiggle\u201d on the aforementioned blockbuster.\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/big-freedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Freedia<\/a>\u00a0has also been named in the case due to her song \u201cExplode\u201d being sampled on \u201cBreak My Soul\u201d \u2014 this is where the allegedly illegal sample stems from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The plaintiffs \u2014 Tessa Avie, Keva Bourgeois, Henri Braggs and Brian Clark \u2014 are arguing that their \u201cunique phrases, melody, and musical arrangement\u201d were used on the songs mentioned above. They also claim to have never approved of the sample, for which they were apparently never credited or paid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEVIN MAZUR\/GETTY IMAGES Beyonc\u00e9\u00a0and\u00a0JAY-Z\u00a0have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over Bey\u2019s popular\u00a0Renaissance\u00a0cut, \u201cBreak My Soul.\u201d Per legal documents obtained by\u00a0Baller Alert\u00a0on Wednesday (May 22), a group called Da Showstoppaz are alleging that the pair unlawfully used their 2002 song \u201cRelease A Wiggle\u201d on the aforementioned blockbuster.\u00a0Big Freedia\u00a0has also been named in the case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134035,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134032\/revisions\/134035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}