{"id":17149,"date":"2012-10-01T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17149"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:59:26","slug":"kanye-west-accused-of-illegally-sampling-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17149","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Accused Of Illegally Sampling Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kanye West<\/strong> finds himself in legal hot water again after a record company accused the megastar rapper\/producer of illegally sampling copyrighted material, although there were legal exchanges made between the parties.<\/p>\n<p>Record label TufAmerica, already going after the <strong>Beastie Boys<\/strong> for copyright infringement earlier this year, filed a claim in Manhattan courts that allege<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong> improperly used the songs from the company catalog for his smash album<em> My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The songs in question, <em>\u201cWho Will Survive In America\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cLost In The World,\u201d<\/em> both used sections of New Orleans R&amp;B great <strong>Eddie Bo&#8217;s \u201c<\/strong><em>Hook &amp; Sling\u201d<\/em> parts 1 and 2. TufAmerica acquired the rights to the 1969 tracks back in 1996. Based on the filing from TufAmerica, Roc-A-Fella and Universal Musi.<\/p>\n<p>Group paid the company $62, 500 in licensing fees \u2013 but &#8220;failed and refused to enter into written license agreements that accounted for their multiple other uses of [&#8216;Hook &amp; Sling&#8217;],\u201d according to the filed complaint in federal court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West finds himself in legal hot water again after a record company accused the megastar rapper\/producer of illegally sampling copyrighted material, although there were legal exchanges made between the parties. Record label TufAmerica, already going after the Beastie Boys for copyright infringement earlier this year, filed a claim in Manhattan courts that allege West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17149","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\/17149","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}