{"id":1517,"date":"2019-07-29T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2019-08-09T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:03:55","slug":"carry-on-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/carry-on-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay up:  Lil Nas X Faces Copyright Law Suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #252525\">Pay up: Lil Nas X is being sued for copyright infringement over his song \u201cCarry On,\u201d which he made no effort to license any samples used in the song. A Culver City publisher is asking the court to award more than $25 million in damages as relief to the lawsuit. Lil Nas X is most known for his recent hit \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d which is also not an original by Lil Nas X. \u201cOld Town Road\u201d was sampled from the Nine Inch Nails song \u201c34 Ghosts IV.\u201d The Music Force has filed the suit against Lil Nas X; however, a court date has not yet been set.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1520\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/190522-lil-nas-x-cs-707a_04981373910d16f07998e3a742a404a7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1520\" src=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/190522-lil-nas-x-cs-707a_04981373910d16f07998e3a742a404a7-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/190522-lil-nas-x-cs-707a_04981373910d16f07998e3a742a404a7-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/190522-lil-nas-x-cs-707a_04981373910d16f07998e3a742a404a7-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/190522-lil-nas-x-cs-707a_04981373910d16f07998e3a742a404a7-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/190522-lil-nas-x-cs-707a_04981373910d16f07998e3a742a404a7-1600x1133.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">INDIO, CALIFORNIA &#8211; APRIL 28: Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus perform onstage during the 2019 Stagecoach Festival at Empire Polo Field on April 28, 2019 in Indio, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images for Stagecoach)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #252525\">The elements of a copyright infringement claim are ownership of the copyright and actual copying by the defendant. Copying is usually proven circumstantially through evidence of access and substantial similarity. To me, just because the song was on the Internet does not necessarily prove Nas X had access to the song and actually heard it; however, this is a feasible argument. The judge will be able to see the note structure of each song and compare them. Additionally, both sides will present expert witnesses to try and show how the songs are and are not similar. Stay tuned to find out when the court date will be and to find out the outcome of the lawsuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #252525\">Below are links to both songs, which I think are substantially similar. The underlying beat of both songs sound almost identical, except for Bobby Caldwell\u2019s version being slower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BT6DVeyFOg0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"688\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Ehpe7b4fX8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pay up: Lil Nas X is being sued for copyright infringement over his song \u201cCarry On,\u201d which he made no&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[23,24,262,138,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}