| Adam Freeland Accuses Black Eyed Peas Of Plagiarism |
| 09 July 2009 | ||
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The Black Eyed Peas are facing legal action from British DJ Adam Freeland - he has accused the band of copying one of his songs. Freeland claims the group used the beat from his track "Mancry" in "Party All the Time," which featured on their latest record The E.N.D. {youtube}VQgs_Q1tItY{/youtube} The star has taken to his Twitter.com page to express his outrage - alleging the Black Eyed Peas track sampled his work without permission. He writes, "OK. Check this. Listen to our song 'Mancry'. Now listen to Black Eyed Peas 'Party all the time' WTF!" Although Freeland has yet to take legal action against the band, lawyers for both sides have been in contact, according to DailySwarm.com. Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am was previously mired in controversy over samples used in his solo work - in 2007 he was forced to drop an excerpt from "Daft Punk's Around in the World" from his "I Got it From My Momma" track by the French duo's lawyers. BYP reacted to an accusation of plagiarism, with Party All The Time said to have the beginning of Man Cry. They explained that this was not a case of plagiarism, in that the band's manager had offered them a beat and it was a case of working together.
"It was a lack of finalising legalities before releasing the record, clearance was not done and that was what it was about." ![]() |
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