Kanye West Sued for Copyright Infringement

This article was one of which I discussed in my presentation on digital downloading and sampling. In this article it outlines that Kanye West was sued by a 1980s producer who claimed that Kanye stole the track for his hit "Good Life" from D' Mystro's 1984 song, "Volume of the Good Life". The case is a very interesting copyright infringement case. The plaintiff failed to prove that Kanye had access to the original work to copy it, and also failed to prove substantial similarity between the two songs as they were not close enough to each other to confuse a reasonable person.

http://www.marylandiplaw.com/2008/04/articles/copyrights/maryland-ip-litigation-2008-lawsuit-summary-no-20/