Nelly and Timbaland plagiarized "Do It" ???

[Raphael]

This news is all over the net:

From wikipedia:

In January 2007, the Finnish Broadcasting Company reported that Timbaland was alleged to have plagiarized several elements (both motifs and samples) in the song Do It on the 2006 album Loose by Nelly Furtado without giving credit or compensation. The controversy was initially sparked by a post on the Pou?t.net forum, a prominent demoscene website, on October 4, 2006 but it would be the post to the Something Awful forums on January 11, 2007 that would spark the larger internet debate.
The claimed "original" track, entitled Acidjazzed Evening, is a 4 channel Amiga module composed by Finnish demoscener Janne Suni (a.k.a. Tempest). The song won first place in the Oldskool Music competition at Assembly 2000, a demoparty held in Helsinki, Finland in the year 2000. According to Scene.org], the song was uploaded to their servers the same year, long before the release of the song by Furtado. The song was later remixed (with Suni's permission) by Glenn Rune Gallefoss (a.k.a. GRG) for the Commodore 64 in SID format - this was the version which was later allegedly got sampled into "Do It".
A video which claims to show proof of the theft was posted to YouTube on January 12], 2007.] Another video was posted to YouTube on January 14, 2007, claiming Timbaland also stole the tune a year earlier for the ringtone Block Party, one of several that were sold in the United States in 2005. [ Interviews with Nelly Furtado claim that the melody for Block Party influenced the creation of Do It.
The electronic music magazine Side-Line put a complete news round-up up on its website. Finnish newspapers Ilta-Sanomat[ , Iltalehti ITviikko and DigiToday also published articles about the suspected plagiarism on January 15th.

Janne Suni posted the following comment regarding the copyright status of Acidjazzed Evening on January 15, 2007:

"...I have never given up the copyrights of Acidjazzed Evening. I also have never authorized commercial use of the song. In 2002, however, Glenn Rune Gallefoss (also known as GRG) made a conversion/arrangement of the Acidjazzed Evening which was not released commercially. This arrangement was made on the Commodore 64 computer. It was authorized by me, and Glenn Rune Gallefoss explicitly asked for permission before releasing the arrangement."

[mojo (Mod)]

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