When Hungarian rock star Gabor Presser claimed Kanye West ripped off his 1969 composition, “Gyöngyhajú Lány” (“The Girl with Pearly Hair”), for his 2013 hit, “New Slaves,” the allegation eventually made it to court. Last week, Yeezy scored a tiny victory when a federal judge granted his request that lawyers for Presser depose him in Los Angeles rather than New York. The judge took into consideration the fact West lives in California with his wife, Kim Kardashian-West, and their two children, according to the New York Post.
Presser is suing West for $2.5 million for copyright infringement, claiming “New Slaves” uses 85 seconds of Presser’s original, which amounts to more than one-third of the song. Without a composer’s permission, samplings of any length break copyright law despite the false belief samples of five seconds, or eight bars, are permissible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyOL-f_UO5k
This all could have been avoided as in May 2013, a mere five days after West kicked off a 66-city tour in support of the Yeezus album (which is where “New Slaves” comes from), a lawyer for West emailed Presser in Budapest to say his client “would like to work out a deal,” as the court papers claim. Yeezy’s lawyers then sent the man a $10,000 “advance,” which Presser denies ever accepting although he continued to attempt to work out a deal. Last spring, with no final agreement reached, Presser pressed harder and sued.
A May 15 trial date has been set.
Sampling Lawsuites Killed Hip Hop.
Reason why classic Hip Hop Albums are a dying breed.
Truth
Another One.
the lack of talent to write and produce killed hip hop
Kind of true, def about the writing. However sampling has been the backbone of hip hop beats since its inception.
Regardless, Kanye will lose this one. He literally copy-pasted a part of Gyöngyhajú Lány to the end of New Slaves without any modification, then him and Frank Ocean laid some vocals on it. Anybody can compare the two songs, the situation is crystal clear. Same goes for the copyright infringement claim, as (and that’s what HHDX didn’t include in the article) Kanye’s lawyers only gave 24 hours for Presser to give his blessing, then after their one-sided deadline passed, they simply started using the song as if they had an agreement. Factually, Presser NEVER gave permission to sample his song in any way or form and didn’t even get a dime for it. The man only wanted to sit down, negotiate and get proper compensation for his work. This is one of the most obvious cases I’ve ever seen, if Kanye and his team can get away with this nobody is safe. Unless you’re a household name in the US with considerable wealth, ofc.
Kuntye-lost -he settled out of court which means he had to pay them for using their song-meaning he did in fact rip it off and just presumed that they couldn’t afford to sue or where dead like the “Bound2” samples he ripped off-more like half the freaking song on that one-does no one get that Kuntye’s fiction “genius” is just the thieving re-mix tricks that he learned from jayZ and PDiddy when they first managed his sorry plagiarizing azzz? thats his whole sorry gig-ripping off old tracks and slapping some lame rap over it-just like his kow wife’s sex worker con is to fake followers to get endorsement$$$ for social media endorsements to tweens thru selfie pornnn–everything about them is smoke and mirrors and fraud or just using the “world’s most hated” Reality TV infamy angle-either way as Sears learned-use them as a endorsement and go bankrupt