Jay-Z is being sued by the heirs of an Egyptian filmmaker, who claim the rap star violated their “moral rights” by sampling the composer’s work for the hit track “Big Pimpin’.”
Jay-Z sampled a musical composition called “Khosara, Khosara” that was created by Baligh Hamdy and used in the 1960 Egyptian film Fata Ahlami. When Hamdy died in 1993, the copyright interests of “Khosara Khosara” were passed down to his four children. One of those children, Osama Ahmed Fahmy, is the plaintiff against “Shawn Carter (Jay-Z), EMI Publishing, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, UMG Recordings, Warner Music and many others,” writes The Hollywood Reporter.
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