Post by kevy_boii on Apr 13, 2009 0:50:04 GMT
The legal troubles just don't seem to end for Lil Wayne and Cash Money Records. The rapper is now being sued for copyright infringement for yet another song on Tha Carter III, "Ms. Officer."
According to reports, Atlanta producer Michael Bradford b/k/a Mali Boi, claims he is the original producer of the track that made "Mrs. Officer" popular.
Bradford claims the producer of "Mrs. Officer," Deezel, remade a track he [Bradford] created called "Crush" for an artist by the name of Sky.
Bradford filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Lil Wayne and everybody involved in the song in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia at the beginning of the year but says Wayne and his camp have been avoiding the court summons.
Deezel has filed for two thirty (30) day extensions to file an answer, the other defendants in the case were given a sixty (60) day waiver of summons.
BMI and ASCAP has been removed as defendants from the civil action through an amicable settlement; whereupon they have agreed to place a freeze on all performance royalty payments worldwide, and to disclose the accounting statements for the disputed composition.
Cash Money Records has agreed to put a freeze on mechanical royalties payments for all retail, digital downloads and ringtone product sales until the civil matter involving "Mrs. Officer" is resolved.
Lil Waynes civil attorney, Ron Sweeney, has yet to answer the complaint.
This is yet another lawsuit aimed at Wayne and Tha Carter III, on July 24, 2008, Abkco Music Inc. filed a lawsuit against Lil Wayne for copyright infringement and unfair competition, specifically referring to the track "Playing with Fire."
In the lawsuit, Abkco claims that the song was obviously derived from The Rolling Stones' "Play with Fire" a song that Abkco owns right to.
Source-http://www.defsounds.com/
