A judge rules that ‘Loca’, Shakira, is a copy – Newspaper

Friday, August 22, 2014

District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, in a federal court decision Manhattan ruled yesterday that Crazy , the song Shakira launched in 2010 within the disk The sun and sold five million copies, is a plagiarism of Loca your Tiguere, Dominican Ramón Vásquez Arias The robed written in 1998 said the single Shakira it was based on a song by Dominican rapper 2007 Eduard Edwin Bello Pou, The Cata , that you copied to Arias this piece. Hellerstein rejected for lack of evidence the claim that there was a breach in the case of the English version of the success of Colombian (pictured, rolling video of Barcelona).

THE COLOMBIAN, HARMLESS / The decision is a victory for the plaintiffs, Mayimba Music, which holds the rights work Arias and sued Sony Corp of America and other subsidiaries of Sony in 2012 . The judge only two companies, Sony / ATV Latin and Sony / ATV Discos, were responsible for distributing the song Shakira that emerges unscathed from this judgment, available in electronic records the judicial system of the United States. The judge argues that the song Arias, and later copies, revolves around a love triangle in which the singer is poor and his opponent is wealthy, an issue that expresses the title of the original theme. Be determined for Mayimba injury and a permanent restriction against Sony in September.