One of the highest appeal courts in the US has upheld a copyright ruling on Madonna's 1990 hit Vogue. The legal action had been filed by VMG Salsoul, the copyright owner of a 1976 composition called Love Break, who claimed new technology had found the "deliberately hidden" sampling by Madonna and producer Robert "Shep" Pettibone.
One of the highest appeal courts in the US has upheld a copyright ruling on Madonna’s 1990 hit Vogue.
The legal action had been filed by VMG Salsoul, the copyright owner of a 1976 composition called Love Break, who claimed new technology had found the “deliberately hidden” sampling by Madonna and producer Robert “Shep” Pettibone.
The alleged infringement involved a 0.23 second horn segment.
In 2013, a District Court judge in California ruled the sampling was “trivial,” and could not be recognised.
Now, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling, stating that a general audience would not recognise the brief snippet in Vogue as originating from Love Break.
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