Lil' Flip Guilty of Copyright Infringement
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:38 pm
Lil' Flip Guilty of Copyright Infringement
He included copyrighted music on his album 'Undaground Legend.'
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Rapper Lil' Flip and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have been found guilty of willful copyright infringement by a Houston Federal Court.
A jury found Lil' Flip -real name Wesley Eric Weston - and record companies: Columbia Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Loud Records, Sukafree Records, Lucky Publishing and Hobbs Publishing, violated the copyrighted music of Tommy Granville by including it on the album 'Undaground Legend.'
A jury awarded $150,000 to Granville, alongside the maximum statutory damages under the law.
Magistrate Judge Stacy fined Sony $12,000 for failure to turnover financial documents when ordered by a court.
Granville's attorney Scott Hemingway tells AllHipHop.com, "We're very pleased that the jury agreed that Tommy Granville's music was illegally taken by these defendants.
"Sony is one of the world's biggest enforcers of its copyright rights and it files 1000's of copyright infringement lawsuits against internet file-sharers to protect its rights. It is nice to see the jury tell Sony and the other defendants that they should respect the copyrights of others the same way they want their own copyright rights respected."
He included copyrighted music on his album 'Undaground Legend.'
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Rapper Lil' Flip and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have been found guilty of willful copyright infringement by a Houston Federal Court.
A jury found Lil' Flip -real name Wesley Eric Weston - and record companies: Columbia Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Loud Records, Sukafree Records, Lucky Publishing and Hobbs Publishing, violated the copyrighted music of Tommy Granville by including it on the album 'Undaground Legend.'
A jury awarded $150,000 to Granville, alongside the maximum statutory damages under the law.
Magistrate Judge Stacy fined Sony $12,000 for failure to turnover financial documents when ordered by a court.
Granville's attorney Scott Hemingway tells AllHipHop.com, "We're very pleased that the jury agreed that Tommy Granville's music was illegally taken by these defendants.
"Sony is one of the world's biggest enforcers of its copyright rights and it files 1000's of copyright infringement lawsuits against internet file-sharers to protect its rights. It is nice to see the jury tell Sony and the other defendants that they should respect the copyrights of others the same way they want their own copyright rights respected."