A Finnish record company's claim that pop star Nelly Furtado and producer Timbaland plagiarized its music has been thrown out by a Miami federal magistrate judge. The case centered on whether the music in question was originally published on the Internet -- and therefore considered U.S.-created under U.S. copyright law -- or first published in Europe.
June 13, 2011 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A Finnish record company’s claim that pop music producer Timbaland and pop star Nelly Furtado plagiarized its music has been thrown out by a Miami federal magistrate judge.
The magistrate, Judge Edwin Torres, threw out Kernal Records Oy’s claim that its song “Acid Jazzed Evening” was the basis for parts of Furtado’s hugely popular 2006 album “Loose.”
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