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Irony: Bollywood composer successfully sues Vivendi over Dre album ripoff
(Ironic because Bollywood in general, and Lahiri in particular, are notorious for ripping off American music with no credit given...)
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/feb/05bappi.htm
Bollywood music composer Bappi Lahiri has won a lawsuit seeking to halt sales of the hip-hop hit Addictive, which carried parts of a number he composed.
The song, which appears in the album Truthfully Speaking by Truth Hurts, borrowed a catchy vocal line from the Hindi song Thoda Resham Lagta Hai, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, without credit or royalties.
The CD went on to become enormously popular last summer selling 600,000 copies between June, when it was released, and October, when Lahiri filed the suit.
A Los Angeles federal judge barred further sales of the CD unless and until Lahiri was listed on the song's credits.
The song, which appears in the album Truthfully Speaking by Truth Hurts, borrowed a catchy vocal line from the Hindi song Thoda Resham Lagta Hai, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, without credit or royalties.
The CD went on to become enormously popular last summer selling 600,000 copies between June, when it was released, and October, when Lahiri filed the suit.
A Los Angeles federal judge barred further sales of the CD unless and until Lahiri was listed on the song's credits.