{"id":6360,"date":"2014-08-29T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2014-08-29T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:00:17","slug":"jay-z-kanye-west-frank-ocean-hit-with-copyright-infringement-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=6360","title":{"rendered":"Jay Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean Hit With Copyright Infringement Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/yehov.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/yehov.jpg?resize=250%2C242\" alt=\"YeHov\" width=\"250\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3523\" \/><\/a>Jay Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit for a track from their 2011 collaborative work on the\u00a0<strong>Watch the Throne<\/strong> album.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to published reports,\u00a0New York musician Joel McDonald is claiming that the trio lifted\u00a0his 2009 song &#8220;Made in America which incidentally has the same name. \u00a0McDonald is reportedly seeking $3 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Jay and &#8216;Ye have faced legal trouble for WTT. Shortly after the LP&#8217;s release, singer Syl Johnson came forward with a copyright infringement suit for using his vocals on &#8220;The Joy&#8221; without permission. The case with\u00a0Johnson was later settled.<\/p>\n<p>Compare and contrast the versions of &#8220;Made In America&#8221; below.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/45638631<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LiUHYrN4NDI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jay Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit for a track from their 2011 collaborative work on the\u00a0Watch the Throne album.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[598,654,807,938],"class_list":["post-6360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-jay-z","tag-kanye-west","tag-matrix","tag-ohsodj"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-1EA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/yehov.jpg?fit=250%2C242&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}