![]() Eventually, the Estate of Jimmy Smith filed a lawsuit against Drake. When the song came out, the heirs of Jimmy Smith claimed copyright infringement. ![]() Toward the beginning of the song, Drake uses a 35-second sampling of a 1980s spoken-word jazz recording by Jimmy Smith. The recent opinion from the Second Circuit involved the 2013 song by Drake (with Jay-Z) called “Pound Cake.” “Pound Cake” is about seven minutes long. Sampling is a technique that is common and popular in modern rap and hip hop music. Often, the older music, lyrics, or audio is played in the background while the newer music or rapping is played over it. ![]() ![]() The federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals, here in New York, recently issued an opinion that is instructive on the legal question of “music sampling.” Sampling is using a small segment, the “sample,” of an older sound recording in a new song. ![]()
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