Intellectual Property
May 8, 2003
Rappers Must Pay $1.5 Million
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded a London music publisher $1.5 million in a copyright infringement case against rappers Dr. Dre, Eminem and Kurupt, Hittman and Ms. Roq and their record company, Interscope/Aftermath.
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded a London music publisher $1.5 million in a copyright infringement case against rappers Dr. Dre, Eminem and Kurupt, Hittman and Ms. Roq and their record company, Interscope/Aftermath.
The jury found that Dre plagiarized segments of the 1980 Fatback hit, "Backstrokin'," ...
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