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General => General => Topic started by: Yaminomalex on January 20, 2006, 06:11:27 pm
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MIAMI - Rapper 50 Cent stole the opening line for his 2003 hit "In Da Club" from a song by former 2 Live Crew frontman Luther Campbell, an attorney claims in a lawsuit.
Richard C. Wolfe filed the copyright infringement lawsuit against
Curtis James Jackson, aka 50 Cent, in Miami federal court last week on behalf of Lil' Joe Wein Music.
50 Cent only changed one word from the opening line of Campbell's song from "It's Your Birthday," Wolfe said after repeating the word "go" several times, "Sheila" becomes "shorty" in the line, "Go shorty, it's your birthday."
Campbell's song appeared on his 1994 solo album "Still a Freak for Life."
"It's the melody, it's the pace, the style everything about that one line is the same," Wolfe said. "We're entitled to a portion of the profits."
Messages left Friday for Campbell and for 50 Cent's publicist, Dennis Dennehy, weren't immediately returned.
Lil' Joe Wein Music holds the copyright to "It's Your Birthday" and other songs Campbell produced with his rap group 2 Live Crew and as a solo artist. Lil' Joe Wein Music is owned by Joseph Weinberger, an attorney who formerly represented Campbell.
Campbell's song "I Like It, I love It" can also be heard on the 2003 DVD "50 Cent The New Breed," the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages in addition to attorneys' fees and other legal costs.
Wolfe won a $2.3 million judgment against Campbell in 1994 for another rapper who claimed Campbell withheld royalties.
What makes this truth even more astounding, is the fact that people worship this idiot.
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Only white, 12 year old subburban kids worship this guy.
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(http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/3703/b0211mx.gif)
^ 50 Cent ^
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(http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/3703/b0211mx.gif)
^ 50 Cent ^
Skin tone is a tad bit off.
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Eeh, I'm not what you'd call a "stickler for detail".
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Only white, 12 year old subburban kids worship this guy.
Sadly, I know a lot of white 16-19 year olds who worship this guy.
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But the future refused to change.
:'(
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More people need to worship DOS.... *shot*
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Yeah, Dawn of Sorrow was fecking awesome!
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Yeah it was (2nd game on my DS)
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Technically it was my second game too, but that was only because I got the red DS, I didn't even start playing Mario Kart until about a week ago.
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*glares at Gashy, but then laughs at the well-pulled off take on the most hallowed thing in my mind*
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Don't
Obey
Swiftman
Pwned by the very God that you worship. =P
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Nah, DOS isn't my God. Just something that's reallly fucking awesome that I grew up with.
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Mac
Are
Cool
Fool, I AM a mac computer.
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Mac are bad at grammar.
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Mac are bad at grammar.
Among other things. =P
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Macs to the max..... ouch, stupid rhyming.......
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DOS to da DRUM
Nonsense fro t3h win
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I am posting this to be included in the topic.
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Wonda-bah.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/Swiftman/Elgoonishshive/worstdirectingEVER.gif)
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i really have no clue whats going on, but on a random note
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f312/Ryacraig/funnysignsign.jpg)
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I love random notes. *Differently noted phrase refering to present action*
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/Swiftman/Elgoonishshive/bwahahaha.gif)
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iy to that
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/Swiftman/Elgoonishshive/maleexcuses.gif)
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Looks like SOMEone's had their EGS fix...
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I'd just like to say
Losers
Always
Zap
Like
Other
Freaking
Addicts
Living
Correspondingly
Over
New
Istanbul
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Confucious say: He who stands on toilet high on pot.
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Smells like bad sprits!
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Samurais and semiautomatic handguns don't mix
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Before bacon and eggs things used to go together like ugly on Yamino.
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Before buttsecks and internet rape used to go on Swift and Laz.
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Before buttsecks and internet rape used to go on Swift and Laz.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/Volvex/burnalmighty.png)
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I AM THE BACON MAN
BRING ALL THE PORK YOU CAN
TO ALL THE LITTLE KIDS DOWN THE ROAD
CLOGGING THEIR ARTIRES
WITH ALL THE MSGS
AND THEY'LL ALL DIE AT THE AGE OF EIGHT!
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/Volvex/bacon.gif)
Who knew pre-death delirium could be so catchy?
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Your mom's butts that I grope every hour on the hour.
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I be huge Bonus Stage fan, and an unbreakable organ of jubilee.
ONE BIG FAT GUY
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Smells like bad sprits!
Smells like your butt. *shot*
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Confucious say: He who stands on toilet high on pot.
Confucious say: Baseball wrong. Man with four balls cannot walk!
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i really have no clue whats going on, but on a random note
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f312/Ryacraig/funnysignsign.jpg)
Nigga plz, stay the fuck out of Lazlo's Photobucket account.
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Lawl, hi-larious.