The rapper’s lawyers claim that the phrase – allegedly taken from DJ Jimi’s song ‘Bitches (Reply)’ – is too common to be copyrighted
Travis Scott filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over unlicensed samples, with the rapper’s lawyers claiming the sample allegedly infringed — the song’s “Alright, Alright, Alright” line “Bitches(Reply)” of DJ Jimi 1992 — does not guarantee copyright protections.
Scott was sued earlier this year by Derrick Ordogne It is Dion Normanwho wrote “Bitches(Reply)”. According to the complaint obtained by Rolling Stone USAthe song’s opening chorus has been widely sampled over the years (“Church Girl” in Beyonce“Start this Shit Off Right” in Lil Wayne It is “Bickenhead” in Cardi B are referenced as examples), and supposedly appears on two tracks of Scott: “Stargazing” in Astroworld (2018) and “Til Further Notice” in Utopia (2023).
Ordogne It is Norman they claimed that they “did not authorize” the sampling of any of the songs. They also claimed that Scott effectively “admitted the unauthorized use of ‘Bitches (Reply)‘” when a “sample release vendor” contacted them about sample coverage for “Til Further Notice”.
But in their motion to dismiss the suit, lawyers for Scott cited previous copyright cases where judges ruled that the use of “common and everyday expressions” does not meet the originality requirement for copyright protections. They said that in this case, the “repetition of the word ‘okay’ is simply too ‘common’, ‘everyday’, ‘banal’ and ‘cliché’” to warrant copyright protection.
Source: Rollingstone
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