Apparently the men's magazine empire PLAYBOY isn't too happy with Drake's uncleared sampling of a record owned by the company. It seems that Drake's breakthrough record "Best I Ever Had' samples Hamilton, Joe Frank and Dennison/Reynold's 'Fallin' In Love' which is owned by Hugh Hefner's PLAYBOY.
Aubrey Drake Graham, Cash Money Records and Universal Music Group have been named in the lawsuit. In PLAYBOY's released statement they claim that Drake & his co-defendants “Knew or should have reasonably known, that the sound recording was protected by copyright…” and that “each Defendant continues to infringe upon Plaintiff's rights in and to the copyrighted sound recording.”
It doesn't end there. PLAYBOY says since the blatant copyright infringement has been "continuous" and "ongoing" they want an injuction to cease and desist any further sales and distribution of the record plus a portion of all profits already accrued by the record. Check out the original sample after the click...
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