And even more copyright law nonsense - we really are spoiling you this morning. A US publishing company is suing Jay-Z over allegations he violated one of their copyrights on his 2003 long player 'The Black Album'. The lawsuit, issued by Bridgeport Music, says that the Jay-Z track 'Justify My Thug' contains samples of music they own, and that the samples were used without their permission.
The specifics of the case aren't yet entirely clear, but Bridgeport, who own publishing rights on lots of music often sampled by the hip hop fraternity, including George Clinton, Funkadelic and Parliament, has got itself a reputation of late for pursuing artists who use even tiny samples of their music without permission, and it has won some landmark cases in this domain.
Neither Bridgeport nor Jay-Z's people have as yet commented on the latest lawsuit.