Donna Summer’s Estate Sues Kanye West

Donna Summer time‘s property is suing Kanye West for utilizing what it calls a “blatant rip-off” of the Disco Queen’s iconic tune I FEEL LOVE on his new Vultures album regardless of being denied permission to make use of the pattern. Within the lawsuit obtained by RadarOnline.com, Summer time’s property accused West and his collaborator Ty Dolla $ign of “shamelessly” utilizing “immediately recognizable parts” of her “ground-breaking” 1977 hit tune on the album Vultures 1 and at reside listening events with out being approved to take action.

The property made it clear that it “wished no affiliation with West’s controversial historical past and particularly rejected West’s proposed use of Summer time’s ‘I FEEL LOVE,'” seemingly referencing the rapper’s stunning antisemitic feedback, White Lives Matter controversy, and extra.

Summer time’s property did not maintain again on its emotions about West and Ty Dolla $ign utilizing the pattern anyway.

“Within the face of this rejection, Defendants arrogantly and unilaterally determined they’d merely steal ‘I FEEL LOVE’ and use it with out permission. Of their tune ‘GOOD (DON’T DIE),” Defendants re-recorded nearly verbatim the important thing, memorable parts of Summer time’s iconic tune, used it because the hook for their very own tune, and launched it to the general public realizing they’d tried and did not safe authorized permission from its rightful house owners and had no authorized proper to take action.”

Summer time’s property claimed that the rappers’ actions “represent willful copyright infringement.” It desires “compensatory damages, most statutory damages, attorneys’ charges, and disgorgement of any income” the pair earned from the alleged unauthorized use.

The property stated it’s taking authorized motion in opposition to West and Ty Dolla $ign over the “blatant rip-off of ‘I FEEL LOVE,'” but additionally for his or her “mere failure to pay the suitable licensing charge for utilizing one other’s musical property.”

Summer time was big-time within the ’70s, incomes the nickname Queen of Disco with legendary songs like Final Dance, Sizzling Stuff, I FEEL LOVE, and extra. Her hit tracks gained her 18 Grammy nominations and 5 wins.

The singer died in Might 2012 at 63 years previous after a battle with lung most cancers. Summer time was not a smoker and theorized that she bought most cancers by inhaling poisonous smoke when terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers in NYC on September 11, 2001.