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Rapper Wins Copyright Infringement Case Over Black Eyed Peas Sample

By Mandour & Associates on June 27, 2011
Posted in Copyright News, IP Litigation News

recordplayer.jpgLos Angeles – Cleveland rapper DJ Orrin Lynn Tolliver, Jr., has reached a settlement in a copyright infringement case involving the unauthorized use of a sampling of his 1982 rap hit, ‘I Need a Freak’  in a Black Eyed Peas song.  Tolliver’s copyright was infringed when it was used in the Peas 2005 smash hit…

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