DJ Wins $1.2 Million In Black Eyed Peas Lawsuit
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Monday, 27 June 2011 |
Written by James Conlon
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An Ohio DJ has been awarded over $1.2 million in damages after a lawsuit against R&B group the Black Eyed Peas. Orrin Lynn Tolliver Jnr, a DJ from Cleveland, Ohio, won the case after it was deemed that his 1983 single 'I Need A Freak' was sampled illegally in the Black Eyed Peas chart hit 'My Humps'.
Tolliver is said to have recorded the track in the studio of James McCant, licensing the track through B.M.I and listing himself as the only songwriter. According to Yahoo News, McCant is then said to have agreed to pay Tolliver 75% of all royalties earned on the track.
The song was then used illegally by McCant, sampled in a number of tracks before ending up on the Black Eyed Peas song ‘My Humps’. Tolliver is also said to have sent a cease and desist letter to McCant before it was used on the chart-topping track.
McCant is said to have changed his account of events numerous times within the trial. First he denied any licence was issued at all, then went on to claim that he had co-written 'I Need A Freak', before trying to secure a musicologist expert's report that 'My Humps' contained no sample of Tolliver's work.
Black Eyed Peas are still currently embroiled in two separate lawsuits, one claiming copyright infringement for their hit song ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’.
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