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This Singer's Estate Is Suing Kanye For Using Her Song Without Permission

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

The Bertz Show.

0:01.0

Time to get buzzed on the hot goss from Hollywood with Abby.

0:05.0

It's the Bert Show's entertainment bus.

0:08.0

This is starting to feel like not so breaking news because Kanye West is out it again, making headlines for something that's not so great.

0:15.2

So Donna Summers' estate is suing Kanye West and Thai Dallasine for copyright infringement.

0:22.7

So they've used a impersonator of her voice

0:28.0

to essentially sample it for their song,

0:30.8

Good Don't Die, and it sounds pretty much exactly like her.

0:34.6

So they ended up asking her state, hey, we would like to use this song, we want to sample it

0:38.4

for our track, because obviously it sounds great.

0:41.5

And they said with his controversial history obviously they don't want

0:44.2

her legacy attached to his so they said no twice and so then they're like okay how

0:49.3

we're going to get around this is we're going to use an impersonator and we're

0:51.9

going to switch up some

0:52.6

the lyrics too and obviously didn't make them super excited because now the

0:57.5

law student is asking for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for each

1:00.4

active infringement to quote recover compensatory damages, big law words, attorney's fees,

1:08.0

la la, it's too early for that.

1:10.0

Big legal jargon.

1:13.7

Like you asked twice.

1:15.6

They said no.

1:16.8

Like take it on the chin.

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