BorderEevilIII
07-15-2003, 08:25 PM
this is awfully late for a lawsuit....
DR DRE & EMINEM SUED BY FRENCH JAZZER
Hip-hop supremos Dr. Dre and Eminem are being sued by a French jazz musician who claims the mega-successful duo sampled his work without permission.
Jacques Loussier is seeking $10 million in copyright damages from the pair for sampling him on Eminem's track "Kill You," released on The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000.
The Frenchman is accusing Dre -- real name Andre Young -- of serial plagiarism at the New York case.
His lawyer Martin Garbus says, "When Mr. Young hears music he likes, it is his habit to take it."
It's not the first time Dre has been hauled before the courts accused of stealing samples -- just in May he had to pay $1.5 million to London's Minder Music LTD. for taking a bass line for his song "Let's Get High."
And Jacques' lawyers want full details of all Dre's copyright battles to be disclosed -- to the objection of the rapper's defence. sfgate-dailydish
DR DRE & EMINEM SUED BY FRENCH JAZZER
Hip-hop supremos Dr. Dre and Eminem are being sued by a French jazz musician who claims the mega-successful duo sampled his work without permission.
Jacques Loussier is seeking $10 million in copyright damages from the pair for sampling him on Eminem's track "Kill You," released on The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000.
The Frenchman is accusing Dre -- real name Andre Young -- of serial plagiarism at the New York case.
His lawyer Martin Garbus says, "When Mr. Young hears music he likes, it is his habit to take it."
It's not the first time Dre has been hauled before the courts accused of stealing samples -- just in May he had to pay $1.5 million to London's Minder Music LTD. for taking a bass line for his song "Let's Get High."
And Jacques' lawyers want full details of all Dre's copyright battles to be disclosed -- to the objection of the rapper's defence. sfgate-dailydish