Grammy Winner Kendrick Lamar Being Sued Over Copyright Infringement
15 April 2016
After setting a record with 11 Grammy Nominations and walking away with five of them earlier this year, could Kendrick Lamar’s luck finally have run out?
According to word on the wire, the 28 year-old rapper is being sued for the use of a 1975 tack Don't You Want To Stay in his song I Do This.
Court papers filed in a Los Angeles court claim that the rapper simply copied and pasted his own lyrics to the track making it an infringement of copyright.
Furthermore not only had the rapper admitted to the infringement when he was approached by the copyright holders, he ignored their demands to stop.
The court case was filed by Golden Withers Music and Musidex Music, which say they hold the copyright to Don't You Want to Stay.
Kendrick Lamar’s song I Do This appears on his self-titled extended-play album from 2009 during his early career when he had yet to make his breakthrough.
The plaintiffs are now demanding that the infringement stop as well as an unspecified amount in damages.
Other defendants in the case include a unit of Kendrick Lamar's record label Top Dawg and a publishing unit of Warner Music Group.
The case was filed in the same court where a jury awarded singer Marvin Gaye's family close to $7.4m (£5.2m) after finding that the Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams track Blurred Lines copied parts of Marvin Gaye's 1977 song Got to Give It Up.
SOURCE: BBC
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