doodledee

Remember the spring of 2000? I do. I remember chillin' at the movies watching Gladiator on the big screen. (I was entertained.) I remember how the DOW was over 11,000. (I was skeptical.) And I remember how Dr. Dre was going crazy about Naptser.

At first he just went at Napster itself.

"We wrote a letter yesterday on behalf of Dr. Dre to Napster basically putting them on notice that the listing of his songs and masters on Napster and the facilitation of the transfer of those files constitutes an infringement of his copyrights," said Howard King, an attorney who sent the letter on behalf of Andre Young, known as Dr. Dre.

Later, he tried to sue some schools and bunch of students. He was seeking $100k in damages for each instance of copyright infringement, totalling around $10M. The lawsuit was settled and Napster tried to stop people from downloading Dre stuff. Now Napster is now basically dead. Coincidence? Yes.

But man, Dre loves his copyrights, eh?

Now today I see that that Dr. Dre is now being asked to fork over $1.5M for a backbeat he plagiarized on a song on his album '2001'.

Huh.

Apparently it was a battle fought in the courts. I guess he lost. I wonder how much he spent defending himself?

On a related note, I did some cutting and pasting at work today. I'm hip. I'm with it. Takka takka takka.

hb ab