Usher and Jermaine Dupri are accused of ripping off singer songwriter Ernest Slaughter for their 2004 hit single 'Burn'...
From Billboard
Last month, a California federal judge found there to be sufficient possibility that Usher and co-defendants who produced the song had access to Slaughter's work, "Reasons," created in 1998. The judge accepted a musicologist's report that noted substantial similarity between the songs and denied a motion to dismiss the case on summary judgment. That means a jury might have the rare opportunity to listen to two songs and determine if the Usher song was stolen.
Attorneys for the defendants, including Usher, producer Jermaine Dupri, EMI April Music, Sony Music, Arista Records, and others filed a motion on Friday that asks U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder to reconsider her August order denying summary judgment.
In the case, Straugther alleges he created a song entitled "The Reasons Why," which showed up on an album by the R&B group Reel Tight under the name "No More Pain" in late 1998.
Jermaine Dupri had this to say on his website Global14
SEE THIS IS WHY IF YOU TRY TO GIVE ME A CD ON STREET, I DONT TAKE IT,HAS ANYONE ON HERE EVER HERD OF A GROUP CALLED “REAL TIGHT” ? I HAVEN’T, NORE HAVE I EVER HERD OF THE GUY WITH CLAIM,PEOPLE KILL ME WITH THIS SHIT #AWAISTOFMYTIME
You be the judge
