#copyright
A US district judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing rappers Jay-Z and Timbaland of copyright infringement in their 1999 hit, "Big Pimpin'," ruling that there was no grounds for the infringement claim. Osama Fahmy, Hamdy’s nephew and the inheritor of the copyrights interest, raised the lawsuit in 2007 and claimed that the rappers sampled the 1960s song “Khosara Khosara” – famously sung by Abdel Halim Hafez – without the permission of the author’s family, which has the exclusive rights to grant…
