(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday awarded a victory to Jay-Z in a copyright infringement lawsuit claiming that the rapper sampled without permission from an Egyptian composer's song for ...

*A judge on Wednesday dismissed a copyright infringement case against Jay Z over his 1999 hit “Big Pimpin'” before the case was sent to a jury. U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder ruled that the ...

A high-profile legal battle between Jay-Z and Houston-based attorney Tony Buzbee intensified this week as Buzbee's legal team filed a motion to dismiss the rap mogul's extortion lawsuit, invoking ...

*The copyright infringement trial involving Jay Z‘s hit song “Big Pimpin’” began Tuesday with an attorney for heirs of an Egyptian composer accusing the rapper of misusing music from a popular 1950s ...

Osama Ahmed Fahmy filed suit against the pair in 2007, accusing them of lifting the melody from his uncle Baligh Hamdi's 1957 Egyptian song Khosara Khosara without permission. The defendants denied ...

Jay-Z is in a battle in Alabama as Tony Buzbee used the rapper’s own lyrics to argue for dismissal of an extortion lawsuit. Jay-Z is facing a sharp legal counterpunch in Alabama where attorney Tony ...

He’s got 99 problems, and Egyptian copyright law just happens to be one. Jay-Z has lost the first round of a legal battle over a sample used in his song “Big Pimpin’,” with a California court giving ...

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