Latest update May 30th, 2019 12:49 PM
MARY J. BLIGE COPYRIGHT LAWSUIT "DISMISSED"
The soulful singer Mary J. Blige was cleared of copyright infringement accusations stemming from her 2001 hit “Family Affair”.
The suit was filed in January by Leonard Jones and James White who managed a rapper by the name of Benevolence. He claims he submitted the artist’s copyright-protected demo to Universal Records in May of 2001. Mary completed the single “Family Affair” in August 2001 and according to the lawsuit, the single had resemblance to Benevolence’s demo track “Party Ain’t Crunk”. They even tried bringing Dr. Dre the producer in the lawsuit case but Dre was dismissed due to lack of personal jurisdiction. However ever Mary and Universal Records challenged the plaintiffs to provide proof of the records bearing the similar lyrical content and the plaintiff could not produce this evidence and the case is dismissed.
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