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Jay-Z sued over Run This Town sample
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 8 November 2013
Jay-Z and his label have been sued by New York-based independent TufAmerica over his 2009 Rihanna and Kanye-guesting track ‘Run This Town’, over allegations it repeatedly samples a 1960s track, owned by the indie, without permission.
According to the New York Daily News, the TufAmerica lawsuit says that Jay-Z’s release includes a sample from Eddie Bo’s track ‘Hook & Sling’ – the rights in which it acquired in 1996 – “dozens of times”.
The legal papers want the courts to give TufAmerica the profits made by ‘Run This Town’ and damages to be determined, plus an injunction to halt the “further distribution and exploitation” of the Eddie Bo song without licence.
Jay-Z’s people are yet to respond. Though the Daily News reckons this isn’t the first time TufAmerica has thrown litigation in the direction of the rapper and his Roc Nation business, but past claims have been settled out of court.