Timbaland Sued Over Furtado Track

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Posted on 06.21.2009
Timbaland Sued Over Furtado Track
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Timbaland Sued Over Furtado Track

Nelly Furtado and hip hop producer Timbaland are facing a new paigarism lawsuit over their 2006 hit “Do It.” They’re accused of illegal sampling a track from an album called “Acidjazzed Evening” by an artist from Finland named Janne (“yan-ay”) Suni which was remixed by Norwegian musician Glenn Rune Gallefoss. This is actually the second time that this lawsuit has come around. A court in Helsinki, Finland dismissed the case back in 2007, but Kernel Records, the Finnish company that owns the original recordings, has filed a fresh lawsuit in Florida.

This time they plan to use Timbaland’s own words against him. The record company claims to have an interview in which Timba incriminates himself by talking about the difference between sampling and stealing. Timbaland allegedly said, “Sample and stole is two different things. Stole is like I walked in your house, watched you make it… went to my house and told Nelly, ‘Hey, I got a great song for you.’ Sample is like you heard it somewhere, and you just sampled. Maybe you didn’t know who it was by because it don’t have the credits listed.”

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