Mark J. Rebilas / USA TODAY Sports More than 15 years after Jay-Z and Timbaland’s Big Pimpin’ thumped in ubiquity across the suburbs of America, the two men are ensnared in an unusual copyright infringement trial. According to the AP, a lawyer for the heirs of Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi, whose 1950s song Khosara Khosara was used in the hit, have “accused the men of violating Hamdi’s ‘moral rights,’ a legal concept he said is well-established in Egypt that would have required them to get permission to use elements of Khosara Khosara in a song celebrating a promiscuous lifestyle.” The American way of thinking goes that the two men, having repeatedly paid the copyright fees for the song, should therefore be free to do whatever they wish with the music.
Can A Jay-z Song Violate Your Moral Rights?
chandler@theatlantic.com, The Atlantic
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:18am
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