Jay Z Run This Town Lawsuit Thrown Out!!!

Deck The Halls its Christmas time since Jay Z Run This Town Lawsuit Thrown Out by Big Apple-based record label TufAmerica Inc.

The Roc Nation CEO got an early Christmas gift after a Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan tossed a lawsuit by record label TufAmerica Inc.

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CelebNMusic247.com has caught word via PageSix that Jay Z and his entertainment company alleging that the rap mogul and other industry honchos illegally sampled a late 1960s funk tune without permission for the popular track “Run This Town.”

Kaplan, in his 15-page ruling, said Jay Z, his company Roc Nation, WB Music Group and others didn’t infringe on the 1969 song “Hook & Sling” when it used a sample of the single-syllable lyric “oh” for the 2009 Jay Z hit that also features Rihanna and Kanye West.

“The word in question — ‘oh’ — is quite common,” Kaplan wrote. “It appears only once, if it appears at all.”
“The court concludes that … the relevant works bear no substantial similarity to one another,” Kaplan said. “It would be impermissible to conclude that defendants are liable in this case.”

“Run This Town” was released on a track for Jay Z’s albums “The Blueprint 3” and “The Hits Collection Volume One” and as part of a popular music video.

TufAmerica says it acquired the rights to “Hook & Sling,” which was sung by Eddie Bo and produced by Al Scramuzza, in 1996 as part of a package deal that covers songs released under Scramuzza’s record label. It claims that samples from the song are used “dozens of times” in “Run This Town.

The suit sought a court order blocking the defendants from “any further distribution or exploitation” of the song “Run This Town.”