Sentence examples for lawsuit for sampling from inspiring English sources

In 1991 they were hit with a lawsuit for sampling the 1968 Turtles' hit "You Showed Me" on their song "Transmitting Live From Mars".

The group was so willing to experiment that a lawsuit was filed against De La Soul by the former Turtles for sampling their 1968 hit "You Showed Me" without their permission.

I contend that sampling and academic writing share a goal of building new work in response to existing sources and that this goal is obscured by lawsuits that reduce sampling to theft by applying to sound a copyright regulation system designed for print.

Following Vanilla Ice's studio album To The Extreme in 1990, British rock band Queen and artist David Bowie filed a lawsuit against Vanilla Ice for illegally sampling the bass line of "Under Pressure".

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Goldman eventually settled the lawsuit for $550 million.

The e-mail threatened a lawsuit for libel.

In 1999, she settled the lawsuit for $100,000, Ms. Malcolm said.

That lawsuit, for one thing.

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Beginning in the late eighties, there were several high-profile lawsuits involving sampling.