A U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday dismissed a copyright infringement suit filed in 2007 against rappers Jay Z and Timbaland that accused them of using elements of a 1957 song by an Egyptian composer without permission.
Osama Ahmed Fahmy claimed they didn't pay for the rights to sample a Baligh Hamdi song from 1999's called Big Pimpin'.
The judge didn’t rule on the merits of that claim, but said the nephew of composer Baligh Hamdi, whose song “Khosara Khosara” figured into Jay Z’s 2000 hit single “Big Pimpin’,” did not have the right to pursue the infringement claim. Judge Christina A. Snyder reportedly told jurors she was dismissing the case after consulting with experts in Egyptian law.
Hamdi’s nephew Osama Ahmed Fahmym argued in his lawsuit that Jay Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, and Timbaland, born Timothy Mosley, had used bits of his uncle’s composition without permission. Both musicians testified in court that they had sought and received permission to use the flute notes from “Khosara Khosara” that appear several times in “Big Pimpin’.”
It's rare for celebrities to testify in person in copyright infringement cases, but Carter and Mosley spent two days in the L.A. courtroom as witnesses.
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