{"id":8091,"date":"2011-06-30T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2011-06-30T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:30:21","slug":"tampan-wins-1-2-million-in-music-sample-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8091","title":{"rendered":"Tampan Wins $1.2 Million In Music Sample Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former<strong> Lynn Tolliver DJ<\/strong> and early rap artist, , won a $1.2 million judgment by a New York jury in a lawsuit over the unauthorized sampling by the <strong>Black EyedPeas<\/strong> of his 1983 song, \u201c<em>I Need A Freak<\/em>.\u201d The sample was used in the band\u2019s hit single, \u201c<em>My Humps<\/em>.\u201d It sold over 2 million copies in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>From his home in Tampa, <strong>Tolliver<\/strong> said he\u2019s extremely happy and although the case took 10 years, God was on his side.<strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a source, Tolliver recorded his song at <strong>James McCant\u2019s<\/strong> Studio at Heat Records. <strong>Tolliver<\/strong> formed a concept band called \u201cSexual Harassment.\u201d <strong>McCant<\/strong> then registered the song with BMI, naming<strong> Tolliver<\/strong> as the songwriter. <strong>Tolliver <\/strong>testified that <strong>McCant<\/strong> agreed to pay him 75% of the royalties from the use of the song. <strong>Tolliver<\/strong> sued <strong>McCant<\/strong> for copyright infringement and claimed that <strong>McCant <\/strong>licensed the song to the Black Eyed Peas without his permission.<strong>[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Lynn Tolliver DJ and early rap artist, , won a $1.2 million judgment by a New York jury in a lawsuit over the unauthorized sampling by the Black EyedPeas of his 1983 song, \u201cI Need A Freak.\u201d The sample was used in the band\u2019s hit single, \u201cMy Humps.\u201d It sold over 2 million copies [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091","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=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}