Kanye West Sued Over ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Samples
By Richard Brooks / News / September 29, 2012 / 6289 Views

Kanye West is no stranger to the judicial system when it comes to samples arrangements as he's already had a case brought up against him earlier this year over for his work on Jay-Z's “Girls, Girls, Girls (Remix).” Today, Billboard shares that Mr. West could be heading back to court after being sued by record label TufAmerica over samples used in two tracks from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, "Who Will Survive in America?" and "Lost in the World." The two songs both include samples from "Hook and Sling, Part 1," created by New Orleans jazz artist Eddie Bo, which TufAmerica says it bought the rights more than 15 years ago. TufAmerica claims that West's labels Roc-A-Fella and Universal paid a license fee of $62,500 but "failed and refused to enter into written license agreements that accounted for their multiple other uses of ['Hook and Sling']," and they're now seeking undisclosed damages for copyright infringement. Check out the video for "Lost in the World" down below, and we'll be sure to keep you up to date as more information is given.

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  • Ye S My D

    Getting sued for the worst song on the album. No Bueno

  • snootchie Bootches

    That was not the worst song on the album ? You don't know what good music is. Your a fucking idiot. NOOOOCH

  • Ye S My D

    Obviously talking about who will survive in america. Dumbass. Unless u wanna enlighten me on which song it was better than.

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  • tards

    ah opinions remember they aren't fact you retards smh for the idiots

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  • MRknowitall

    They're not suing him over the songs he used the sample in. He paid for that. They're suing him b/c he used the sample in the "Lost in the World" video and his "Runaway" movie.

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  • DeezenutsNyomouth

    Obviously its not going to be a song if its an album outro you fucker. Just shut up before you embarrass yourself even more.

  • DeezenutsNyomouth

    Best song *

  • mp

    Kanye: *kanye shrug*

  • http://twitter.com/genebernice genebernice

    You can specify the transactions and payment mode for the paid license fee.

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  • Klein Trial Lawyers

    TufAmerica also filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Beastie Boys the day before member Adam “MCA” Yauch died of cancer. These lawsuits
    demonstrate the extraordinary attention to detail that is required when license
    fees are first agreed to, as many artists can be susceptible to infringement
    charges over just one second of unauthorized use in a song. These are not the
    first copyright infringement claims West has faced, and it should be noted that
    a similar lawsuit over his song “Stronger” was dismissed in August. All
    recording artists need to take painstaking efforts to ensure that they are
    complying with intellectual property laws.