Mary J. Blige Sued For Copyright Infringement

August 7. 2008

Once again, another copyright infringement lawsuit has been filed against a major label artist. This time it is Mary J. Blige and her production team named as defendants. They are being accused of stealing preexisting copyrighted music for her CD, Growing Pains, that she wrote the lyrics for.

This conduct is so unnecessary and ugly. It's nothing but covetousness and arrogance. These major labels artists and producers can pay others to write music for them or they can buy beats from other producers, but they get envious when they hear other people's work and just take it like criminals, depriving indie artists of their rightful property and money.

Mary J Blige Hit By $2 Million Lawsuit

Mary J Blige has been stunned by a lawsuit claiming that some of the music on her last album, 'Growing Pains', was stolen.

The Grammy Award winning singer has been hit with a $2 million suit by Dream Family Entertainment Inc who say they own the rights to the music for 'Work That' written by Theron (NEEF-U) Feemster.

The papers filed in New York say that the firm never gave permission to Blige, Geffen Records or Feemster to use the music.

"Mr. Feemster created the music while he was under contract with Dream Family. Dream Family then owned the music, yet the music was used without permission in a Mary J. Blige release recording," Dream lawyer Brian Caplan told the NY Daily News.

"It was released as an album, a single and in a commercial," Caplan added.

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