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One of, if not the best rap album of all time has been ordered to cease sales over what a judge calls illegal sampling.
A US judge has stopped sales of a 1994 album by Notorious BIG after a jury said it used part of a tune by funk band Ohio Players without permission reports BBC.
The jury also awarded $4.2 million in damages to the two companies that own the rights to Ohio Players recordings on Friday as U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell called for a sales ban to hit not just physical sales of the album and title song, but downloads and radio plays as well.
That seems a bit extreme to me. Can’t a monetary settlement be reached without a judge stopping sales of the album altogether? I’ve never even heard of such a thing. Could you imagine if ‘Give Me Shelter’ by the Rolling Stones suddenly lost a case because a portion of one of their songs “illegally sampled” another song, and a judge ruled that from now on all sales of ‘Give Me Shelter’ were to cease?
No? You know why? Because it would never fucking happen.
Notorious B.I.G. LP Sales Halted Over Sample [MTV]
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