Sean 'Diddy' Combs and his Bad Boy Entertainment company have confirmed they will appeal that previously reported court ruling regarding the Notorious BIG's album 'Ready To Die'. As previously reported, a judge last week ordered the album to be withdrawn from sale after the owners of music by a funk band called the Ohio Players said that the album's title track had sampled one of their songs without permission. The court also awarded the sampled song's owners, Bridgeport Music and Westbound Records, $4.2 million in damages. But a legal representative for Diddy's company told AllHipHop.com this week: "The verdict was erroneous and against the great weight of the evidence. We are very confident that it will be reversed".
Mar 22, 2006
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Bad Boy to appeal Biggie ruling
Bad Boy Entertainment has said it will appeal a ruling ordering the Notorious BIG album 'Ready To Die' withdrawn from sale over an unlicensed Ohio Players sample.