KFed Vs. Thomas Dolby

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Well in case you haven't heard, Mr. Spears aka Kevin Federline has posted a song which samples "She Blinded Me with Science" without permission. Thomas Dolby has commented on this on his blog:


Britney Spears’ husband Kevin Federline, whom I’d never heard of until a few days ago, appears to have illegally sampled one of my compositions. On his MySpace site you can download an MP3 which uses a looped sample from Mobb Deep’s ‘Get It Twisted’, which in turn copped the string line from my own song ‘She Blinded Me With Science.’ Now, Mobb Deep did it the right way and had his label BMG come and ask for a license. They paid me a fee and a royalty on the sales of Mobb Deep’s record. However K-Fed, as his fans affectionately refer to him, did NOT ask permission, he just went ahead and did it. He is therefore blatantly violating the copyright law. And laws aside, he owed it to me as an artist to ask if I minded that he recorded a vitriolic rap over the top of my music. It starts off ‘This is for the HATERS…’ and goes on to blast the media, paparrazzi and all his other critics, sparing no expletives along the way. BMG Records have also had their copyright violated, as they own the master to Mobb Deep’s record. But BMG don’t want to rock the Britney boat so they are turning a blind eye. It’s pathetic! Turns out K-Fed has no management, label or lawyer, so it’s going to be hard getting hold of him. So K-Fed, if you’re reading this, I’m asking you nicely to take the track down ASAP. Or maybe you’d prefer me to come after some of your wife’s ill-gotten gains?

Check out Dolby's Blog at:

http://version.thomasdolby.com/index_frameset.html

You can hear the unfortunate use of sampling at:

http://www.myspace.com/kevinfederlineforreal [xx(]



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[Frau_Blucher]

Ill-gotten gains! LOL!!! Beautiful. [:D]

[Randall Roq]

I feel filthy for having listened to that crap, I can only imagine how I'd feel if I were Mr Dolby.

Word.

[yipyipcoyote]

I wonder if he [i]knew[/i] he was sampling Mr. Dolby

[hutter]

Of course he didn't know he was ripping off Mr. Dolby. Just LOOK at him. I'd be amazed if MC White Trash knows his ABC's, or can even tie his own shoe laces. He sure as hell don't know how to keep his pants from falling down. And he looks like he took a crap in 'em. I'm being a hater, yo.

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Seems like this was resolved. K-Fed removed the song from his site. Dolby follows up on his blog.

[ben_at_work]

My bet is that KFED actually thought that it was a Mobb Deep origional and has absolutley no clue who Thomas Dolby is... or Joe Jackson for all that matters [}:)]