Playboy Suing Drake For Copyright Infringement Over Song "Best I Ever Had"
Playboy the American men's magazine empire is making an unexpected move and filing a lawsuit against Drake.
The rapper's #1 hit record “Best I Ever Had” is earning him more than just platinum plaques and will force him to face a possible court date now that Hugh Hefner's signature company has filed a copyright infringement complaint against him.
According to the legal documents, Aubrey Graham b.k.a. Drake, Cash Money Records and Universal Music Group are responsible for infringing upon the use of the song “Fallin In Love” by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Dennison/Reynold.
The original song, whose rights are owned by Playboy Music Inc. and Playboy Enterprises, is reportedly the song heard in the beginning of Drake's track and was used without permission.
Playboy says that Drake and the other defendants quote:
“Knew or should have reasonably known, that the sound recording was protected by copyright…” and that “each Defendant continues to infringe upon Plaintiff's rights in and to the copyrighted sound recording.”
The company also says that since the infringement is “continuing” and “ongoing“ they want an injunction to stop the sales and distribution of the record and Drake and the defendants held responsible for Playboy's costs and attorney fees.
Playboy would also like a portion of all gains, profits and advantages made off their original production.
Source: HipHopWired
@ChasinMoPaper
“Knew or should have reasonably known, that the sound recording was protected by copyright…” and that “each Defendant continues to infringe upon Plaintiff's rights in and to the copyrighted sound recording.”
The company also says that since the infringement is “continuing” and “ongoing“ they want an injunction to stop the sales and distribution of the record and Drake and the defendants held responsible for Playboy's costs and attorney fees.
Playboy would also like a portion of all gains, profits and advantages made off their original production.
Source: HipHopWired
@ChasinMoPaper
Comment
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Comment by Chill ling on June 29, 2010 at 12:39pm -
That song is his gift and curse
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Comment by Myron Ghost Dog on June 28, 2010 at 11:51pm -
That some crazy s***, they should just pay Playboy with all they BIG MONEY asses. NO court just fork over a couple of million for makin that bunk a** monkey song. Best He Ever Had was Better for Playboy I see.
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Comment by tristan on June 28, 2010 at 11:07pm -
shut down cash money, Baby dont support his home town or most of his artists,
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Comment by tristan on June 28, 2010 at 11:06pm
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Wow they never learned from the vanilla ice song, he got sued to f*** for that
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Comment by orlando on June 28, 2010 at 10:37pm -
haha i love hef..
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Comment by Jason on June 28, 2010 at 9:08pm -
songs complete garbage anyway,make it stop
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Comment by LuCdoGG on June 28, 2010 at 8:25pm -
its cause playboy going broke
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Comment by coolflex on June 28, 2010 at 8:12pm -
OH S***!! That is soooo f***** up!! I got the original song in my song library and if they used it without contacting the original artist/producer/publishing company, to CLEAR those samples, Cash Money Records and Universal Music Group ARE ROYALLY F***** or should I say ROYALTY F*****!! We talking MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS HERE!! Boi-1da produced the song for Drake and jacked the whole beginning of "Falling In Love" and he didn't even change anything to it! The s*** is as plain as day! All he did was put beat to it!! I guess his new name will be Boi Blunder behind this!! Damn.... Playboy Music got these n***** all day and can pretty much shut these n***** down behind this lil' mishap!! They are sooo sued!! LOL!
NOTE: Industry Lesson 990 - Never jack beats and don't clear the samples? This can get the producer of the song sued, the artist sued, and the m*********** record label sued for putting out the song to the point that they can get shut down behind it!!!
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Comment by Erock on June 28, 2010 at 7:42pm -
Wow how many lawsuits am I going to read about today? Like Diddy says "f***** crab a** n*****"
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Comment by GOTDAMN! on June 28, 2010 at 7:12pm -
WHITE PEOPLE ARE TRING TO SUCK HIP-HOP DRY! TELL EM SUCK A D*** INSTEAD! HA HA HA!
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