Judge throws out case brought by TufAmerica label after having trouble discerning the one-syllable sampleJay Z has emerged victorious from a court battle over the consume of the word oh. A Manhattan court has dismissed a lawsuit that the rapper’s 2009 single Run This Town violated copyright by sampling a single syllable from Eddie Bo’s 1969 funk track,Hook and Sling.[br]“The word in question - oh - is fairly common ... [and] it appears only once [in Run This Town], whether it appears at all, and ” Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled. “The relevant works bear no substantial similarity to one another ... It would be impermissible to conclude that defendants are liable in this case.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com