Kendrick Lamar slammed with lawsuit for copyright infringement over Loyalty
KENDRICK Lamar has been sued in a California federal court for copyright infringement over his Grammy-winning single Loyalty.
Musician Terrance Hayes claims he wrote a 2011 song by the same name he recorded with Josef Leimberg six years before Kendrick’s hit 2017 song featuring Rihanna came out, a report said.
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He is looking for a jury trial and seeks to be awarded all profits from Kendrick’s hit song by the alleged same name, and any additional “monetary advantage” as determined by the court.
In the lawsuit, Hayes alleges songwriter Terrace Martin, who is credited on Kendrick’s album Damn, had access to Hayes’ recording sessions through Leimberg.
Since Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were notoriously ordered to pay Marvin Gaye’s estate over Blurred Lines, lawsuits have increasingly hit stars from Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran .