What song would that be?
On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 08:39 PM, Jon Leidecker wrote:
> just got this from ba-newmus... wow. I KNEW Dre didn't even bother to
> clear the rights to the song.
>
> If anyone hasn't heard it, the original track is played virtually
> intact,
> in it's entirety, as the 'background vocals' or underlying
> counterpoint of
> the entire song. It's quite a brilliant track. Does anyone have an
> mp3
> they can upload somewheres?
>
> jon
>
>
>
>
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> Indian Composer Sues over Track in U.S. Hit
> Wed Oct 30, 8:01 PM ET
> By Edmund Newton
>
> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A famed Indian composer has filed a lawsuit
> in federal court claiming the recent hit single "Addictive" by Truth
> Hurts borrowed heavily and without permission from a 20-year-old
> Hindi song.
>
> The lawsuit also charges American producers, including hip hop
> impresario Dr. Dre, with practicing a form of "cultural imperialism"
> by not crediting Third World artists.
>
> Songwriter Bappi Lahiri filed suit in U.S. District Court in Los
> Angeles on Tuesday seeking a halt to the further sale of the
> album "Truthfully Speaking" on Aftermath Records, his lawyer said on
> Wednesday.
>
> Aside from Dre, whose real name is Andre Ramelle Young, the
> defendants named in the lawsuit include Interscope Records, the
> parent company of Aftermath, which is headed by Dre. Also named is
> Universal Music, the world's largest music company and a unit of
> Franco-American media and utilities giant Vivendi Universal .
>
> A spokesman for Universal said the company does not comment on
> pending litigation. Dre's lawyer, Howard King, said Lahiri was trying
> to capitalize on Dr. Dre's celebrity.
>
> Lahiri claims that the producers of "Addictive" lifted four minutes
> of the original recording by Indian artist Lata Mangeshkar of the
> song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai."
>
> "They literally superimposed their own drum track and lyrics over the
> beat," said Lahiri's lawyer Anthony Kornarens. "It's not just a small
> loop."
>
> "It's our opinion that the label simply took it for granted that
> Hindi music was something they didn't need pay for, that it could be
> used simply at will," Kornarens said.
>
> Truth Hurts' album has sold about 600,000 copies since it was
> released in June. "Addictive" was released as a single and became a
> top 10 hit.
>
>
> SUIT FILED IN HOUSTON
>
>
> Saregama India Ltd., the Bombay-based film and music company that
> produced the original recording of Lahiri's song, filed its own suit
> last month in federal court in Houston, seeking $500 million in
> damages.
>
> The case is the latest in a series of copyright cases related
> to "sampling," the practice of digitally extracting recorded passages
> and inserting them into new recordings.
>
> Most recently, flutist James Newton sued the Beastie Boys over the
> use of a brief sample from his recording of his own
> composition "Choir" for the Beastie Boys' "Pass the Mic."
>
> A federal judge in Los Angeles recently dismissed Newton's suit on
> the grounds that the flutist was seeking to protect a flute-playing
> technique rather than the copyrighted music.
>
> But other cases have established an artist's right to copyright
> protection from samplers. In most cases, record companies are forced
> to negotiate licensing agreements with producers of sampled music.
>
> King, Dre's attorney, said his client had little to do with the
> production of "Truthfully Speaking."
>
> "There's no reason for him to be a defendant in this lawsuit, except
> that somebody's taking advantage of his name," King said. "He didn't
> write or perform on the record. It happens to have been released on a
> label he's part owner of."
>
> Truth Hurts, whose real name is Shari Watson, recently told MTV that
> Dre had remixed "Addictive," according to an article on the MTV Web
> site.
>
> "He really took it to another level," she said. "He took another part
> of the Indian sample and added it to the beginning and to the
> middle."
>
> The producer of the song is listed on "Truthfully Speaking" as DJ
> Quik, whose real name is David Blake. He told MTV that he had
> stumbled upon the Indian recording while channel surfing. "I woke up
> one morning -- I turned on the TV and landed on the Hindi channel,"
> he said.
>
> Finding himself "grooving" to the beat of Lahiri's song, DJ Quik
> said, he was impressed by the music. "So I pushed record on the VCR,"
> he said.
>
> originally at-
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
> tmpl=story2&cid=769&ncid=689&e=12&u=/nm/20021031/music_nm/leisure_addi
> ctive_dc
>
>
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