"Megaproducer" Timbaland rips off from amateur musician

[Grendel]

Interesting case.

Timothy ”Timbaland” Mosley stole large portions from a amateur musician, and used it both as a ringtone and as the song "Do It" by Nelly Furtado, on her 2006 album ”Loose”.

The case is interesting, as Timbaland is reputed as a "megaproducer" whose songs tend to hang in top 10 lists of several continents. And then he just makes carbon copies, records somebody elses' song and basically adds drumbeat and singing on top of it.

And not just as normally artists do when "sampling" somebody else, but copying very large parts of the original song.

As seen here, scroll to bottom for English summary:
http://plaza.fi/harrastukset/edome/artikkelit/yleiset/yhdysvaltalaistuottaja-polli-suomalaismuusikolta

And in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Timbaland_plagiarism_controversy

It is not a case of nationality, but the boldness how a big name producer thought he could just steal from a invidual, unsigned musician far away.

This is right now making rounds from local press to European news, heard there was already some mention in MTV Europe. If it lands to North America, could you let me know?

Yes, there is a personal slant: I know the original artist and I've seen such cases before. But this time, A/ the thief is a huge name and B/ the case actually gets publicity.

[Neubob]

He named himself after a workboot. What do you expect.

[RedDg]

[RightF00T]

Wow...didnt expect to hear about this on here.  The problem lies in that Tim probably has an endless supply of lawyers, and connections and this guy is going to have to really dot all his Is and cross his Ts so that the defendant doesnt get away with it on a technicality.  As a musician I admired Timbaland, but jacking someone else's work just because you can is really low however it went down.

Also think of it this way: Timbaland doesnt produce all of the songs himself.  He has a whole crew of producers that work under him and do various things.  This could have been a case of one of his under-guys finding the plaintiffs music, switching it up slightly then presenting it to Timbaland as his own in the belief that the original artist was too obscure for anyone to notice.  

 As a musician I admired Timbaland, but jacking someone else's work just because you can is really low however it went down.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Now it is time for some justice. Sue the record company for $200 000 punitivie damages per sold record, just as thry do to p2p users.